Word: fallen
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Black playwright Gus Edwards also writes about trapped people, but his people are Black and his setting contemporary. Except they might as well be white and the setting Victorian England. Three Fallen Angels concerns a man, his wife and his best friend, a young co-worker. The friend falls for the wife. "I got to kiss you. I got to know how it feels," he says. Completely inarticulate, encased within themselves, the "angels" can only express their feelings physically: erotic dancing, lovemaking, or (how many times have you seen this?) a just-for-fun sparring match between...
...result, new housing starts have fallen off a cliff. The Commerce Department last week reported that construction on new homes in October dropped to an adjusted annual rate of 857,000, the lowest level in 15 years. Starts of single-family homes meanwhile hit the lowest rate since the end of World War II, an adjusted annual level...
...week's end Stockman had survived the initial uproar. But the Administration's star had clearly fallen into a black hole, possibly taking Reagan's fading chances to win future economic fights in Congress with him. It was doubly unfortunate that Stockman's self-inflicted wounds came at a time when the nation's economic recession was deepening and the Administration's tax and spending policies were meeting rising resistance on Capitol Hill (see following story...
...surprising thing is that Harvard entered Saturday's game with a mathematical chance to win the title. If the Crimson had beaten Yale. Dartmouth had lost to Penn and Princeton had fallen to Cornell, the gridders would have been undisputed Ivy champions with a 5-1-1 mark...
This year the familiar pattern has been unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched off when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...