Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of fate's minus pool of mediocrities but a quite decent human being. Ditto the rest of the staff (exemplary actors all) at the Cull-Loomis School of English for Foreigners. Call it cul-de-sac for short. "Teaching foreigners is a job for failures," says one. Still, in a period of four years, life does seep into the arid crevices of their existence. There are births, marriages, deaths, philanderings and conversions...
Thursday. Tried to convince myself that all this darting observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...
...Keith Ditto Fort Worth
...aquamen have learned to turn to Hall in pressure situations. In the battle for the New England title November 7-8, Hall contributed five goals and five assists, but in the final against Brown his sterling play was not enough. Ditto for the Easterns the next weekend, when Hall led all Harvard scorers with nine tallies. His performance included a pair of goals and five steals in the heartbreaking 8-7 loss to Fordham to drop the Crimson out of the top four. "That game was the most disappointing loss I've ever had," Hall says, but he concedes...
...voice is not there. Bacall--she of the throaty growl to die for--has only an average singing voice and performs many of her songs in a Rex Harrison-like half song, half speech. Ditto her co-star Harry Guardino, who is best known for helping Clint Eastwood rearrange faces in Dirty Harry and The Enforcer. Because this is basically a two-character show--and because this duo can't dance very well either--the musical end of Woman sinks like a cast iron...