Word: drawerfuls
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Unpredictable. The economy also is in the bottom drawer. "If any national issue works against the Democrats-and I'm not sure any will-it will be high prices in supermarkets," says Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor Patrick Lucey, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. But unparalleled prosperity should help Democrats at least as much as inflation hurts them. Outside the South, where Democrats are scrambling to avoid identification with him, Lyndon Johnson also is the subject of considerable conversation without real ly being an issue. The fact is that a President's popularity-or lack...
...some aria playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office, he has been known to sneak a baton out of his desk drawer and direct with full arm movements the music pouring over the house speaker system...
...classic image of an English teacher invariably includes his having 'something in the drawer' that he's been reworking for years. 'I know I've got a play in me yet,' the stereotype says, but of course it never comes...
...with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan and ("in the wind") a Paris production of Agamemnon with Ingrid Bergman as Clytemenestre. And what with all the hoopla, he feels it may be a good time to bring some more works out of the drawer. Already finished are 40 pages of a comedy about long Irish engagements in Brooklyn, and then there's the near inevitability of the Hogan's Goat scenario. "But after that," he said wistfully, "I want to do a tragedy. It seems kind of crazy but it's about...
...classic image of an English teacher invariably includes his having 'something in the drawer' that he's been reworking for years. 'I know I've got a play in me yet,' the stereotype says, but of course it never comes...