Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins with Soprano-Narrator Barbara Hendricks, 29, a Juilliard graduate, reciting the opening lines of the penultimate Alice chapter (the trial of the Knave for stealing the Queen's tarts) and ends with Alice's exit from Wonderland. As the orchestra loudly warms up, the White Rabbit bellows "Silence in the court!" and the instruments' din comically subsides. Then, for about an hour, the score seesaws between the basic narrative and funny, parodic arias that are often sweetly melodic and easy...
Just the night before the fans at Westbury covered his entrance and exit with crazy screams and beer-throated hysteria, threw him boxes of Mallomars and batches of promising hash brownies--ready approbation that makes Carlin feel that he has ripened, not aged, in the dynamic business of making people laugh...
...words, as defined entities, are self-limiting; now Carlin has come to a plateau in his life where new and fresh words and ironies are getting harder to find. He is literally fighting to free himself from his own words, and he has chosen film as his surely needed exit...
...visitors were mildly surprised at the candor of their hosts. Officials freely admit, for example, that bribery occurs within the Vietnamese bureaucracy, though they insist that corruption is "not common." In fact, it is very common indeed. An exit visa can be bought with $2,000 in gold, and the cost of other services varies accordingly...
...into Harvard life. You have to register, so get it over with. This process entails standing in long lines, filling out forms, filling out more forms, filling out a few more forms, and then running the gauntlet of representatives of undergraduate organizations who line the twisting path to the exit. Check them out and by all means take the free copy of The Crimson. It'll make good reading, and it'll make us fell better. You can to the whole thing in about 45 minutes, unless you get the infamous red dot on your registration packet, which means that...