Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jacobs's cards are down. She finished her competition with a live, four-minute sportscast last Monday evening. To fill in an otherwise slow sports night, she chose a rebuttal to sports commentator Eddie Andleman's comment that "Women have no feel for sports...
...rather gross fare of the pre-Central Kitchen era. In those days, the story goes, you might catch a glimpse some night of students bearing a steaming kettle of this poison on a pole to wherever the Hasty Pudding Club was assembled for the evening. Everybody would then fill themselves to the accompaniment of mock trials staged by club members. Fortunately, both the College cusine and the Hasty Pudding have matured, although at times both still seem rather half-baked...
...switch began in July when the first of the company's 25,000 U.S. gas stations began putting up Exxon signs to replace the firm's other brand names: Esso, Humble and Enco. To fill its need for new signs (along with the big board, each station requires about 50 smaller ones for gas pumps and such), Exxon had to parcel the work among 30 manufacturers. In addition, the new trademark had to be affixed to 11 million credit cards, 22,000 oil wells and 18,000 buildings, plus innumerable employee identification badges, truck mud-flaps and pencils...
...learning how to spread its limited talent thin. David Lewis does reliably unflappable matron Prune, waddling through both acts with his dignity intact even when his virtue has been lost. As the traditionally breathy and breasty torch singer, Tom Wells (Helza) has enough slink and alto in him to fill his shining jump-suit with credibility, and Mark Miller's One-Eyed Jack starts out as the most convincing and most spirited character of the whole, unsure crew...
Cinematic techniques fill in historical detail while adding structural unity to the production. Certain scenes are structured around related events which span a ten-year period of the movement. For example, in the second act, women in Manchester and London at various points in time appear simultaneously, collecting and begging for donations to the movement. The scene culminates with all the women converging on London to launch the political phase of their movement...