Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forward Ted Frembgen scored one of the three tries in the first game, while Charlie Rowe accounted for the other two. Exceptional playing by the entire three-quarter line also contributed to the sizable margin of victory by keeping M.I.T. in her own end throughout the game...
Everything happens to Gervaise. At the beginning of this grim dramatization of a Zola story, the "best-looking man in the neighborhood"--to whom the lame Gervaise has been informally married for seven years--runs off with another woman, leaving the destitute heroine with two children. At the end, with her legal husband--with whom she had spent a few happy years--dead, Gervaise is homeless and penniless, sitting dazed and sullen in a small...
...tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
When King Kalakaua-the "Merry Monarch,'' elected by the legislature two years after the end of the Kamehameha dynasty-ratified a reciprocal trade treaty with the U.S. in 1875, Hawaii boomed in earnest. But then, embroiled with a corrupt legislature and a Svengali-like adventurer, Kalakaua lost his grip; scandals raged as the spendthrift King kicked the public debt from $388,000 to $2,600,000 until, in 1887, he was forced to sign a new constitution stripping himself of his near-totalitarian powers...
Ideally, the end of Lefty should have the whole audience on its feet, all selfconsciousness gone, bawling "Strike! Strike!" along with the actors. This did not happen at Agassiz; perhaps it will never happen any more, but some of us will miss the spirit that made it possible. But Mr. Mirsky and his actors have caught this spirit in a performance far above ordinary Workshop standards...