Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway play's pre-Broadway alterations can sometimes be basic. The latest example is Big Fish, Little Fish, by Hugh Wheeler, which opens on Broadway March 15 and stars Jason Robards Jr. as a middle-aged hollow man who, in the bright past before Act I, used to be a brilliant young professor at a girls' college. But an old accusation hangs over him: he had seduced a trustee's daughter, who, when jilted by him, committed suicide in his bathtub...
...Hallinan gives his church's explanation: "The Catholics are 1.3% of the population in our state. If the full federal power cannot carry this off, it's fatuous to think we can. I would take the risk on high moral principles, but it would be a hollow victory if it wrecked our school system or did harm to our children...
Also Flyspecks. The spy ring was handsomely equipped. A Chinese scroll discovered in Lonsdale's apartment had a secret catch revealing a hollow core. It contained $1,800 in cash. A can of paint at Houghton's place contained a plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...
...former resident of Scarsdale and its "organized acquiescence," my hat is off to the young woman who turned down her debut to the "Hollow Ball." I remember many times the heartbreak of young people who were not accepted in other organizations of top importance-school-frowned-upon sororities and fraternities...
Inside-Out Edens. Out of such earthbound progenitors, thinks Cole, real macrolife can ultimately be developed, and once it has become established in space its units can grow to very large size. In time, too, new types will appear, such as enormous hollow ellipsoids that spin constantly so that their inhabitants can walk upright on their inside surfaces and feel a gentle gravity pulling them outward...