Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Board of Education began retreating from the "neighborhood school" to the recognition that a concentration of Negro pupils, although caused by housing patterns, is of itself an educational handicap...
...help him on the Coast. He had to have the moralistic anti-Rockefeller votes as well as those of his own ultra-conservatives to win on March 10. And plucky Senator Smith looks every inch as virtuous as Goldwater facing a divorced man and she has avoided the handicap of Barry's political extremism. Voters seeking to avoid a distasteful choice between the Governor's "sin and the Arizonan's Armageddon may leap for Senator Smith's open arms...
...there is nothing he would rather do than flail away at a golf ball. He will often ask four or five couples out for the weekend, taking the men guests with him to the golf course, where he competes tensely and excitedly and clobbers them with his 15 handicap. What do the women do while the men play? Paley pauses, never having considered that. "I don't know what the hell they do do," he says...
...fact that nobody can be quite certain what Endgame means is, in the logic of the theater of the absurd, hardly a handicap. As interpreted by the Theater Company of Boston, the play is intended less to present an allegory or a message than simply to shock. Shock for its own sake, of course, would be merely discomforting. Shock as Endgame produces it wrenches the spectator into the absurdity of the drama and forces him somehow to identify with all the characters at once--they are all abstractions of the ages of man--and to share with them their monstrous...
...skids. The cast has already survived a boat's capsizing in Barcelona, a flood while on location in Toledo, and is getting ready for the big tent-fire scene at Madrid's Retire Park. So she heads for the Club de Campo with her 18-19 handicap to bash the pill around when she gets to relax. The flaming red hair is strawberry-blonde now, and her film role casts her as the mother of Claudia Cardinale. But the erstwhile Sadie Thompson still has the gams to make shorts worth wearing...