Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than dance-and silent-screen pantomime at that. From the first sledgehammer chord, accompanied by the projection of Rome's Colosseum on the scrim curtain, spectators might well have guessed that they were in for triumphal processions, slave girls, gladiators and courtesans, eye-rolling, tooth-gnashing and a dose of belly dancing. By Scene 2 of Act I, 16 corpses were sprawled about the stage...
Next Boat? Last weekend, after gulping down his supply of barbiturates, Soblen was pronounced in grave condition by British physicians. The British Home Office was in a furor trying to figure out just how Soblen had managed to accumulate his massive dose-and to consume it while presumably under heavy guard. In any event, when and if Soblen does get back to the U.S., authorities had better be sure he does not just walk off one day and board the next slow boat to Red China...
This summer Rinker & Co. set up "institutes" at 20 universities from Cornell to California, gave 900 teachers a stiff dose of everything from satire to syntax. Supposedly the nation's best English teachers, they are expected to go home as "germ carriers" after a graduate-level summer tour of literature, linguistics and composition. Rinker is pleased-but not nearly as pleased as he hoped...
...gone. Jolted, he pulls himself together and takes a modest job in the dubbing room. But all at once the screenqueen (Cyd Charisse) who drove him to distraction and destruction turns up in his hotel and starts tormenting him again. Desperate, he soothes his shattered nerves with a dose of nature's own narcotic (Dahlia Lavi), and when the director has a heart attack he offers to finish the picture for auld lang syne. But when the actor shows a real flair for directing, the invalid flies into a snit, accuses him of "stealing my picture," orders him thrown...
...from Algeria. Since May 1, the new arrivals have swollen Marseille's population from 800,000 to nearly 1,000.000-and the city is beginning to burst at the seams. "The pieds-noirs are like sleeping pills," said one local official. "You can safely swallow only a certain dose...