Word: eves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snowmobile? As the day approaches, the spirit settles over them, too, like fresh snow on a busy town. Parents come round last, rushing from toy stores to cocktail parties, muttering about the cost of evergreen trees, chilled by the cold glare of Christmas bills to come. By Christmas Eve, though, everybody is a willing conspirator...
TEIBELE AND HER DEMON by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eve Friedman...
Even for great American prose writers, the theatrical muse has been a bitch. Henry James' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's plays were disappointments; Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis lasted less than a month. Thus Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and Collaborator Eve Friedman find themselves in distinguished company with Teibele and Her Demon, a "fable" for Broadway...
...real size of Saudi Arabia's production capacity. Last spring Exxon and Socal divulged to the Justice Department, in its ongoing anti-trust investigation of the oil industry, that Aramco had little spare capacity. That statement helped to undercut Saudi influence over cartel price policy. On the eve of the Caracas gathering last week, Saudi officials proclaimed that the country could boost output almost immediately, perhaps to a hefty 11 million bbl. Meanwhile, the Saudi government is punishing Socal and Exxon for their indiscretion; Aramco is under orders to cut back deliveries to those two parent companies...
...raised delicately away from the tea cup. "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Giancarlo Menotti's Christmas opera about a crippled shepherd boy who makes good, is on PBS, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. The "Joy of Bach," (self-explanatory) is the next night at 8 p.m., and then, "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street," Monday the 24th at 8 p.m. The schedule promises a "special interview" with Henry A. Kissinger on "The Dick Cavett Show" Saturday the 22nd at 11:30 p.m. (times vary in other cities). Maybe nice Mr. Kissinger will discuss the Merry Christmas from the air he wished...