Word: exit
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...peak in the early 1960s, Ionesco attracted such collaborators as Jean-Louis Barrault, who magically staged A Stroll in the Air; Laurence Olivier and Zero Mostel, who both played the lead in Rhinoceros (with Mostel winning a Tony Award on Broadway); and Alec Guinness, who starred in Exit the King, a Lear-like portrait of the inevitability of death. Ionesco was hailed as someone who might bridge the gap between literature and entertainment. Instead, his work grew more remote and austere, and his audiences dwindled. His last play, Journeys Among the Dead, was withdrawn before opening in New York City...
Some Bosnians fear that the opening of a few exit doors will advance Serb plans to partition the capital rather than reunite it. They believe the Serbs may "cleanse" their areas by allowing only Muslims to leave, and vice versa. The result could be a factional rearrangement of the multiethnic city. U.N. officials admit that this kind of hardening of the Muslim-Serb lines is a possibility. Says one: "There is nothing in the agreement about reunifying the city...
Webster Hubbell resigned as Associate Attorney General to focus on resolving allegations of client overbilling and expense abuse -- charges that were leveled by his erstwhile partners at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm (former workplace of Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Administration figures). The exit was another painful development for the Clintons, particularly the First Lady, many of whose imports into the Administration have run into trouble...
During the process, some houses may choose students who ultimately will not be permitted to transfer because of the exit and entrance caps...
With the brothers' appearance, the dialogue finally gains energy, and the genuine verbal fireworks restore some sense that these are complex characters that we should care about, and not merely cartoons. Yet, with the exit of the men, the women are once again stranded in Toon Town...