Word: invalidism
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...necessary, of course, to adjust one's feelings about Venice before entering this show. Today's visitor thinks of the city as a tottery invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump. One's awe at Piazza San Marco is mingled with pity and even impatience, and the child in the tourist impertinently wonders how soon the whole peeling confection, gold, Istrian stone, gelati and all, will be swallowed at last in the lagoon...
Winter may have come to Broadway, but the Fabulous Invalid has a spring in its step. After a sour start, with discouraging box-office receipts and with La Cage aux Folles the sole hit among the new plays and musicals, the season cheered up at the holidays. December brought a British farce, Noises Off, its chaos as finely tuned as a Daimler engine, and Noises Off brought in the pre-Christmas crowds. Then the Christmas-to-New Year's week (traditionally the year's best for ticket sales) recorded a $6,058,815 total, the second highest...
...still not be over. Although no further counts are legally possible, referendum supporters watching the recounting process found about 38 ballots which might be invalid, Bruce Berman, consultant to the pro-referendum Committee for Quality Cable, said yesterday...
Donovan said that the possible delay of the primary elections--because of a judge's recent ruling that all the newly designated voting districts are invalid--should give canvassers an opportunity to reach even more people...
...nuclear plants 4 and 5 under contracts that obligated them to pay for the reactors whether or not they produced electricity. When work stopped more than a year ago because of escalating costs and an inability to get more financing, the utilities refused to pay and declared the agreements invalid. The state supreme court went along. It ruled that the utilities did not have the authority to enter into the accords in the first place, because they were putting their ratepayers at risk for the construction costs...