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...brought in when Lloyd Richards, who has directed the premiere of every other Wilson play, had to bow out because of a health problem. Scott Bradley's soaring set--the backyard of a ramshackle tenement building, complete with earnest little garden and the tallest, steepest stairway since Jacob's ladder--is abundant in telling detail. Along with Constanza Romero's flamboyant costumes, it brings to vivid life the 1948 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is the locale of the play...
This time the tables are turned. The Crimson (4-1 Ivy, 12-5 overall) is tied for the top rung of the league ladder with Dartmouth, while the Bears (3-2 Ivy, 7-10 overall) are in a three-way pile up for third place with Penn and Princeton...
...groups that have been helped most in recent decades are senior citizens and rich people. At one time, the elderly sat alongside small farmers on the poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...
...groups that have been helped most in recent decades are senior citizens and rich people. At one time, the elderly sat alongside small farmers on the poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...
...older, although they did: the average weight gain between ages 30 and 39 is 4 lbs. for men and 9 lbs. for women. It's that fortysomethings are now heavier than fortysomethings were 10 years ago, thirtysomethings now are heavier than thirtysomethings then, and so on down the demographic ladder...