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...appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late husband, whose views she apparently shares, was a conservative of the Neanderthal stripe. Obviously, she irks Justice Snow. One of the internal contradictions of the play is that Snow, despite his liberal views, is some thing of a chauvinistic fossil when it comes to accepting women on the high bench. In any event, as you may possibly guess, Justice Snow, after suffering a heart attack, has so won his way into Justice Loomis' thought processes that she casts a vote his way in a close decision concerning some venal corporation...
...York-based group of scientists has set up a task force to examine and publicize the possibilities of energy sources other than fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and to develop methods for conserving already existing energy stores...
...aberration for the front office-a smart move, and Tiant has been a steady 20-game winner ever since. Luis has got style. Roger Angell of the New Yorker has called him "the archeologist" (because he picks up the ball and looks are it as if it were a fossil before he lets fly), and an early stage in his complex motion is a rhythmic shaking of the ball, in glove, shoving it down his body in an erotic dance. Tiant's family lives in Cuba, and on a recent visit George McGovern fixed it up with Fidel so that...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray
...happy anomaly, a 20th century centaur. Away from trucks and taxis, he has no competition; all turf is his. The novice and the regular both know the cyclist's high. It derives, in part, from the knowledge that the energy comes from a live body, not from fossil fuels. The legs pump, the heart answers. After a few trips, the rider feels the course of his own blood and knows the truth of Dr. Paul Dudley White's promise: the bicycle is an aid to longevity. (White took his own advice and pedaled into his late...