Word: larking
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Maybe the college professors think Shakespeare produced only 37 plays, but this off-Broadway lark is the Bard's long-lost science-fiction rock musical. Small of scale and free of spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play...
Cara Dunne '92 of Dunster House, who said she entered the campaign on a lark, said she also thought campaigning was unnecessary. "By now the class should know who we are and what we are about," she said...
Nominated last week by President Bush to serve as director of Central Intelligence, Gates began his CIA career "on a lark" in 1965. He accepted a + recruiter's invitation to an interview just for "a free trip to Washington." Once he got there, however, things got serious. The agency asked Gates to join, not as a "spy" but as a deskbound analyst, and he accepted. Yet when the agency offered to finance his part-time doctoral studies, Gates declined. He "didn't want to feel obligated to stay" if a good teaching job suddenly became open...
...writer of thrillers, stops by the network to see an old Vietnam war buddy. He is not a happy camper. Cost cutting is under way, firings are the order of the day, and a terrorist is threatening to do some eliminating of his own. For a lark, Sasser decides to probe, just the way his fictional heroes do. Thereafter troubles and murders begin in earnest. Tucker wanders a bit, tells some good jokes and provides a smashing and surprising denouement, in a dirigible high over Giants Stadium during a Monday-night football game...
...lark" back in 1975, Feinstein recalls, she and two women friends forced their way into the off-limits gentlemen's dining room of an exclusive club. Nevertheless, today feminists outside San Francisco tend to blow hot and cold about Feinstein. Some find her standoffish. Assemblywoman DeLaine Eastin of Fremont, among others, complains that as mayor, Feinstein appointed many more men than women, gave short shrift to women's issues and failed to support a number of other women candidates. "Let's face it," says Eastin, "she has not been a team builder for women...