Word: died
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...bore witness most passionately in The Fire Next Time (1963), in which he declared that he was determined "never to make my peace with the ghetto but to die and go to Hell before I would let any white man spit on me, before I would accept my 'place' in this republic." He also proclaimed there his skepticism about the value of being "integrated into a burning house." And that, as Detroit and Newark soon showed, was what was coming next time. "White people in this country," he wrote, "will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept...
...have to do away with "isms", and start having a good time. Our bodily organs together make up the body that contains our individuality, and unless we start to realize that, oppression will reign in South Africa, baby seals will die pointless deaths, and Sally Struthers will weep herself to sleep each night...
...greater challenge, though, is that the actors have to sustain for nearly three hours the audience's interest in the story of an embittered, vengeful killer whose philosophy is "we all deserve to die." But if such a character can be engaging, then Tolins' Sweeney is engaging. Edwards' Mrs. Lovett is hilarious, as are Johnson's lascivious, foppish beadle and Arthur Fuscaldo's Pirelli, a mountebank rival barber. Wolman's judge is surprisingly sympathetic, and Michael Starr is strong as Tobias, Mrs. Lovett's fiercely devoted young shill...
Horror stories abound, especially in the health and postal services. Urgent operations can be postponed for three to four months while a patient waits for a hospital bed. "You can queue up and wait to die," says Ferrarotti, "or you can drop 400,000 lire (($325)) up front to ensure yourself a place." A payoff helps to get things done. In a new study, Professor Franco Cazzola of the University of Catania estimates that the kickback industry, the entrenched system of institutionalized bribery, amounts to 3.3 trillion lire ($2.7 billion) a year. One Turin industrialist admits that he does...
...character stands apart from the world and comments, and that is Sondheim himself. His salvation, always, has been work. Mary Rodgers recalls, "My only expectation, and it was shared by all his close friends, was that Steve would have to make it, because if he didn't, he would die." Make it Sondheim did, in everyone's eyes except his own: "Deep down, I don't feel any more successful than I did as a young man. I won't be happy until everyone likes my shows. If they ever do, I'll worry they're not liking them...