Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother once said of him: "He began to talk when he was nine months old and he's been talking ever since." But last week Senator Pepper was not talking very much. Democratic voters in Florida's primary had made him the 81st Congress' first lame duck...
...Mario's Caprice Restaurant in London's fashionable West End, a guest last week could choose from a menu of caviar, turtle soup, sole bonne femme, roast duck with wine sauce and pineapple, whole baby chickens fried in butter with mushrooms, asparagus in butter sauce, feathery soufflés aflame with brandy, strawberries, peaches in kirsch, crêpes suzette en liqueurs, petits fours. "And," said Mario, "you can have it all if you like." To encourage the dollar tourist trade, Britain's government had lifted the wartime limit of five shillings (70? U.S.) per meal...
...history. Politics came first. The primary consideration was not so much passing bills as creating issues which could be presented persuasively to the folks back home. The strategy of the Republicans was to blame and reproach. The strategy of Democrats was to explain, defend and duck-or to demand laws they couldn't get and blame the Republicans for not getting them...
...slow first act and two seemingly aimless ones following it expelled two people sitting behind me. These people missed a treat in the last two acts of Ibsen's great play. It is then that the characters, ideas, and comedy of "The Wild Duck" bloom, in some of the most masterful writing of modern theater. The acting parallels the movement of the play, reaching a brilliant climax in the last two acts...
...dialogue, which loses its kick when the mustachioed leer is missing. The special effects like Harpo's trick coat and the much heralded chase are up to standard but there is nothing side-splitting like the stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera" or the mirror scene from "Duck Soup." "Love Happy," while not nearly up to Marxian standards is still pretty good comedy...