Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Name stage, when I was a Boswell looking for his Johnson, a neophyte looking to sit at the feet of some guru. I found my big name, but the course became more of a quiz show than an investigation of the sociological foundation of literature, and the professor better fit the role of a Bert Parks than a George Kitteridge...
...rough edges. It has had an enormous success d'estime at London's Aldwych Theatre, but as you could guess it's been Travesties that's been packing 'em in. And probably when the producers and the middle men sit down to decide which new plays from London are fit for American consumption, it is Travesties that will seem the more daring, seem the more avant garde, even seem the more effective comment on moral and dramatic issues. These impresarios will be wrong, of course; both plays deal with a large part of the repertory of contemporary theatrical obsessions--history...
...illnesses of many political leaders, Dr. Silverman believes, fit his theories: Lyndon Johnson's last heart attack, Robert Taft's terminal cancer, Joseph McCarthy's fatal liver ailment and Richard Nixon's phlebitis, all seem to him to have been triggered by the intense emotional stress of a traumatic event, though not enough is known about the "target organs" involved...
This policy requires shippers to use U.S.-flag vessels to move varying percentages of certain cargoes-half of all goods shipped to the Soviet Union, for instance. But not a single U.S.-flag ship is left that is efficient enough for trans-ocean commerce and small enough to fit through the seaway locks-so the law in effect forbids many U.S. shippers to use the Great Lakes...
...beside myself....'Can't four men handle a woman,'I said, 'must they beat her?' I was impressed with the apathy of the spectators. They were ordinary people. 'Don't get angry, Mister,' someone said, 'she's a whore'....The woman was obviously now going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute, is that why they have to whip me? It's the pimp's fault...