Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focuses on the bewildering world of the two minor characters in Hamlet and their hellish and condemned existence in a play they do not understand. A madcap Danish prince reels drunkenly in and out, a tossed coin falls on "heads" 92 times in a roll, distracted characters enter and exit without explanation...
...There is a logic," protests a defiant Guildenstern at one point, but it is one they will never understand, for their only part is to play their part. And their only repose from doubt and uncertainty, the Go dot they ultimately wait for, is death. Death is an exit, and as the Player puts it, an exit is merely an entrance to somewhere else. Life, on the other hand, "is a gamble at terrible odds," and sometimes you lose 92 times in a roll...
...Tigers. The Crimson won an emotional playoff contest with Princeton, 5-3, for the EIBL title and then breezed through the District 1 championships. The Crimson did a couple quick tangos with the grand dames of collegiate baseball in the college World Series in Omaha before making an exit out the back door after two straight losses...
Orwell was a master of exit lines. Yet it is his openings that remain in the mind: "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me"; "Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing"; "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Where is the reader whose eye could rove from a page with those beginnings...
...elegant craftsmanship) above and beyond the call of television duty. Indeed, all three conspire to make Costigan seem a much wittier writer than he is. Olivier can get laughs by snuffling or shuffling the papers on his desk. Hepburn in a temper, or just making an entrance or exit, remains, as always, a great theatrical occasion...