Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spoleto U.S.A. is devoted to all the arts. Simon Gray's new play Molly was the attraction at the restored Dock Street Theater (see following story). Noon at the Dock Street was the hour for a daily series of chamber music programs under the co-directorship of Pianists Peter Serkin and Charles Wadsworth. The first recital consisted of works by Pergolesi, Schubert and Dvorak, and the capacity audience of 463 rose to its feet, applauding...
...whole thing seems like a scene out of the theater of the absurd. Crews trickle into the oathouse and silently--who has anything to say at 6 a.m.--stir a shell from its sleep, lug it to the edge of the dock and drop it into the river...
...witness box and carefully asked a question. Then he darted to the witness chair, buttoned his jacket and waited for spectator giggles to subside before answering. Rushing back to the table, the man inquired of himself, "Where were you on the night in question?" After scurrying back to the dock, he replied, "Could you please repeat the question?" Unamused, the jury convicted him after deliberating all of two minutes...
...Claudia's case and Attorney Tina Lagostena Bassi agreed to represent her. Said Claudia: "Le femministe, they're the ones who have given me the strength to fight." When the trial opened, Claudia burst into tears at the sight of the seven sullen youths in the dock. She testified that she had received threats warning her not to press the case. Five days later, she was found lying semiconscious by a roadside on the outskirts of Rome. She told police she had been abducted, raped and repeatedly slashed with a razor blade in reprisal for her testimony...
...catch was a fluke-only once before this year had Boucher caught any yellowtail flounder-but New England fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took effect on March 1, extending U.S. jurisdiction over fishing in coastal waters to 200 miles from the old limit of twelve. The law is intended to save from extinction many species of fish-as well as much of the U.S. fishing industry...