Word: elasticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Results. That confusion should give the Justice Department pause when it decides whether to retry the Harrisburg Seven, in a case that has already cost the Government an estimated $1,500,000. Indeed, the conspiracy law, invoked against such varied defendants as Charles Manson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Bobby Scale...
Four thousand years ago, Santorini was a single mountainous mass, almost completely round. At that time, archaeology has shown, the island was inhabited by an exceedingly sophisticated race of men. To make their buildings somewhat elastic and therefore earthquake resistant, they set wooden pins in the corner joints of the...
Narrative Gift. On his show, as well as on his records, Flip Wilson spins out these impersonations in anecdotes, not one-liners. His gift is for dialect and narrative, not gags. The laugh track of a Bob Hope or a Milton Berle is a crescendo to climactic punch lines. Flip...
The bloody war in Viet Nam actively festers in the imagination of one of the more promising young U.S. playwrights, David Rabe. In his drama of last season, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, the taste of blood and the apprehension of imminent death gave the evening an elastic tension...
Kenneth Piper last April became the first man to fly from Twickenham Bridge into the Thames. It was not much of a flight, actually-about 40 feet, straight down-but the fact that Piper was borne by homemade wings gave it an added dimension of pathos. Walter Cornelius (the "Birdman...