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Word: lair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays by Murray Schisgal, 36, who is handsomely helped by the husband-and-wife acting team of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. In The Tiger, an eccentrically violent postman named Ben grabs Gloria, a Long Island housewife, from a New York street, marches her captive to his cold-water lair, and pins her arms behind her. Rape? Murder? What is on the whirling mind of this kook? His room is a chaotic rubble of exposed steampipes, drying clothes, books spilling out of bureau drawers, and a blackboard chalked TODAY'S WORD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hourglass Plot | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 12, 1962 | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...reason is simple: Columbia visits Princeton and the trip into the Tiger's lair should prove very unpleasant. Lion sophomore quarterback Archie Roberts did very well against Brown--in fact, he even was named Ivy Back of the Week--but Princeton is another situation...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Four League Games Slated As Ivy Trophy Chase Begins | 10/6/1962 | See Source »

...theater, on and off Broadway, got under way last week with imports. The Affair, British and new, scrupulously tracked justice through a lair of university dons. A Man's a Man, German and old, eerily demonstrated the process of brainwashing before the term had even been invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: First Nights in Manhattan | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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