Word: ets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palin, complete with a Three Stooges pine board and lots of cream pies; a filmed retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood legend, with Cleese as Ms. Hood and the rest as seedy rapists; and best of all, another filmed skit wherein the German philosophers (Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, et. al.) played soccer against the Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Archimedes, etc.). In appropriate costumes, they dashed onto the field and fell immediately into deep personal contemplation, until Archimedes yelled "Eureka!" and scored. The Germans disputed the goal, claiming it may have existed only in the imagination ... you get the picture...
...through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many more revelers: Joan Mondale, New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Walter Cronkite, Zubin Mehta, Lady Bird Johnson, Sarah Caldwell, Burt Reynolds et several...
With midfielders Leo Lanzillo, Frank RiCapito et al setting up the plays, the Crimson consistently moved easily down field for the shot...
Unfortunately for opera lovers, the discord has already cost five weeks of performances, including the season premiere of Turandot, starring Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe. It will be two or three weeks before the house reopens. For some productions, like Samson et Dalila, Das Rheingold and Gotterdammerung, the agreement almost certainly has come too late. A new staging of Queen of Spades, planned for next March, may also be scratched. Even so, there were few tears at Lincoln Center. If the accord had not come now, there might have been no season...
...YORKER, he is a meatball amidst the linguinous prose of Pauline Kael, et al, and in book form his essays stand up well. They are not meant to be read all together at one sitting, but to be savored, like stuffed peppers in chili sauce. If one dare bother to complain, Allen may not be clever enough. His stories are a form of verbal slapstick; he is desperately self-conscious when he puns...