Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...
...really. While looking for someone to play the role of Cohn, Feiffer remembered seeing Seltzer in early 1975 in an off-off Broadway production of The Sea Gull. In August, he tracked down the professor, who was on a lecture tour in Africa, and signed him up. Seltzer insisted on one condition: that the play be put off until January, when he was scheduled to start a sabbatical...
Safety Cage. Bricklin thought he could succeed by selling a car engineered primarily for safety. The Bricklin had retractable bumpers designed to absorb collisions without damage at speeds up to ten miles per hour, roll bars that made the passenger compartment a kind of safety cage, and gull-wing doors that opened by swinging up and out of the way of oncoming traffic. Those features were expensive: the car's price rose from about $8,000 in 1974 to $10,000 this year. Bricklin tried to give the car flash as well as safety appeal; he made only...
...plants, which employed 600 people, were expected to produce 12,000 vehicles a year; but over the Bricklin's entire production run, beginning in August 1974, they turned out only 3,000 cars-most of them exported to the U.S. One trouble was that the Bricklin's gull-wing doors were electrically operated -and sealed in passengers if the battery ran dead. Some Bricklins arrived at dealers' with missing parts and simply could not be sold. Deliveries to Bricklin's 400 dealers were slow and erratic...
...bird get so far south? Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson speculates that it migrated across the top of Alaska to the mouth of the Mackenzie River in Canada, became separated from its own kind and took up with a colony of Bonaparte's gulls in their summer breeding ground, then flew south with them last fall. Or perhaps it is the victim of a gull's version of an identity crisis. Says American Birds Editor Robert S. Arbib Jr. dryly: "He thinks he's a Bonaparte...