Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Teddy (Mark Driscoll) stands to inherit little but his mother's idiotic grin. His father never let him go even to the bathroom alone, but stood over him while he peed and demanded that he learn multiplication tables. Driscoll, who substituted for Thomas Derrah on opening night, spends most of the play gazing stupidly at his even stupider girlfriend Lorraine (Maggie Topkis): both play their roles with a frighteningly convincing ditziness. Topkins swills beers and chomps on gum picked off the floor as she sends out for pizza to swell her already-ample girth...
...number of works that attempted to transcend romantically the naturalistic action of verismo, using the more advanced harmonic language and orchestral technique of Wagner to create a new direction for opera. In La Fanciulla del West (1910), Puccini had pointed the way, and several younger men were eager to inherit his mantle: Italo Montemezzi, with L'Amore del Tre Re (1913); Ildebrando Pizzetti, with Fedra (1915); and Zandonai. But the attempt failed; although all three continued to compose into the midcentury, it was left to Puccini to write fine to traditional Italian opera with Turandot, which premiered posthumously...
Florida P 143 Mondale scores high with elderly and Jewish voters. Glenn and Hart want to inherit voters loyal to Favorite Son Askew. Latecomer Hart has only 34 delegates on the ballot...
...think hunger will worsen over the next four years because any Administration will inherit a $200 billion federal deficit," said McGovern...
When Bernard Francis Law '53 dons the miter as Boston's new archbishop on March 23, he will inherit an archdiocese rich in ethnic diversity and burdened with pressing social problems...