Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Leverett production is at the same time one of its great strengths: Smith chooses to omit the entire comic subplot of the play written by collaborator William Rowley (without which the title is nearly meaningless). This leaves the play almost unbelievably short--the whole thing takes an hour-and-a-half, including a 15-minute intermission and scene changes. Along with the director's rapid-fire pacing of the scenes, this insures that The Changeling won't give audiences an overdose of post-Shakespearean blank verse--which most of the actors cope well with anyway...
...higher prices. Finally, inflation seems to have become self-perpetuating. One example: uncertainty about whether a new factory will repay the costs of building it causes business to hold back on investment in new plant and equipment. The lack of investment reduces potential production and output per man-hour, pushing prices up still further...
...however, the President had gone back to the plan Blumenthal hated. He had decided, Carter told his Treasury Secretary, that Strauss was the right man to bend business and labor. Blumenthal was stunned and furious. He spent the next hour or so at the White House in a state of frenzy, flipping between the offices of Vice President Walter Mondale and Presidential Aide Stuart Eizenstat, who was still writing the President's speech. Said one White House aide who watched Blumenthal: "He was climbing the walls." Blumenthal was trying desperately to alter the decision and then, realizing...
...colleges and universities, plus a wire-service story, brought the limericks rolling in. "The limerick," explained Rue, "is a non-threatening art form. People will write a limerick when poetry would scare the hell out of them." Members of the Mohegan community got together for one ten-hour limericking marathon to choose 86 finalists for Asimov...
...highlights of the all-day tournament came when the four participating teams--Harvard, B.U., Thfts and B.C.--took an hour off for lunch, just long enough to polish off six kegs of beer...