Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVE nothing against the word "fuck" per se. But when a playwright uses it as often as I blink my eyes, I expect him to provide some of the excitement this word suggests. In Sligar and Son, author Andy Hoye fires away with enough expletives for five LeRoi Jones one-acters, yet the four-letter word that most aptly describes his play is "dull...
...flew Bayne to Colombo, Ceylon, where the hospital ship Hope was anchored. Aboard the Hope, after more transfusions, Bayne emerged from his coma and began a slow but so far steady recovery. Last week, back home in Claremont, he felt strong enough to begin walking again. He can expect to be completely recovered in about three months. All he can remember of his brush with death is being admitted to the hospital in Bombay, then waking up aboard the Hope in Colombo...
Unliterary Acquaintance. Even with symbolism and cold-war politics set aside, the book presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow smith that lends a slight feeling of familiarity to some of Cancer Ward's harrowing episodes. It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms...
Barbarella--Roger Vadim's very public salute to Jane Fonda; more or less what you'd expect. At the CIRCLE, Cleveland Circle, Brookline...
Princeton uses the sweep predominantly for running, and as the defense begins to expect the run, the pass becomes increasingly effective. MacBean has completed 14 of 15 attempted passes, while McCullough has thrown for 141 yards...