Word: dreadfully
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...enthralled or illuminated, as long as a production can pique the senses and stay uneasily in the mind as do Woyzeck's visually masterful sequences. The way Jamie Hanes, as Woyzeck, stares defeatedly at a surrealistically huge bowl of peas, munches some, then bows his head in acceptance and dread, carries its power with it; marooned in cellophone wastes with his huge silhouette thrown on a scrim, Hanes need not operate otherwise in recognizable patterns. Kim Burrough as Marie, in some ways a more pivotal persons than Woyzeck, forges a character tied more closely to those events that are seen...
...Middle East. A deadline long regarded with something close to dread by U.S. policymakers passed by safely at week's end. For months the U.S. has been concerned that something might delay the scheduled Israeli pullout from the Sinai on April 25. As he started his Falklands shuttle, Haig dispatched his No. 2 man, Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, in the hope that his mere presence would have a calming effect. The Israeli bombing of Lebanon at midweek stirred U.S. officials to private fury, but the State Department contented itself with a mild public statement while getting messages...
...exists at all these days is that the two nations have exchanged places in the hierarchy of world power since World War II, and Britain has replaced the bemused hauteur with which it peered across the Atlantic in the 19th and early 20th centuries with a current admixture of dread and regret. What many Englishmen said after the war (and still say, to some degree) is that savage, sprawling America was amusing enough when it was a bulky, sleeping animal, but now that it has grown to a global monster, civilization will go to the hogs. This is the dark...
...suppressed altogether: it popped up toward the end of the 1973-75 business slump, and has surfaced again in the past few weeks. This time though, it is not just the inveterate calamity howlers of economics but some highly respected business analysts who are saying out loud the dread word, depression...
That may be the trend, but the major share of the estimated annual $200 million to $250 million maternity-clothes market is still absorbed by those dread synthetics, which are usually cheaper and almost always require less maintenance. Blends bloom even at Bloomie's, to the surprise and chagrin of one Manhattan attorney who exclaimed, "Everything looks terrible. It's all polyester. I can't wear that to the office." Says Jacqueline McCord Leo, 35, author of The New Woman 's Guide to Getting Married: "You can't get silk...