Word: gurneys
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...Some deplore it. The lyrics of T.S. Eliot, the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the spectacular stage effects of Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Costumer John Napier have made Cats a conversation piece and a flaming megahit. The Dining Room. Clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny, A.R. Gurney Jr.'s drama compassionately graphs the decline of the Wasp, a breed apart...
Charlie Brooks walked into the execution chamber, stretched out on the hospital gurney, and a catheter needle was inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
...yawning, wheezing and clutching for air. Otherwise the public, unlike the audiences at old-fashioned hangings and beheadings, would have had to rely on its imagination. Granted, the imagination was boosted by sketches in newspapers showing exactly how the execution room looked, with Brooks stretched out on a hospital gurney rolled up beside a brick wall with a square hole and tubes looping through. But this was hardly the same as being there. For those who craved particulars, the appetite was merely whetted...
Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of History and Political Science, said the overture was one more step in an attempt by Russia to patch things up with China" that has been going on for a long time. He discounted the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan as a factor in Brezhney's action...
...breakfast table who tells his young son that the government is ruining the country. The boy replies that his teacher says the government should help people in Depression times. Fuming in anger, the father deliberately makes the boy late for school. Ramsay seems to embody the Wasps as Gurney critically and compassionately sees them-a breed whose manners calcified into morals while the society around them abandoned morality...