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...inaugural speech to the N.C.C., Armstrong granted the critics a few points but lauded the council's past record and said it would be "irresponsible" to trim or scuttle social programs. "The ecumenical movement is not a lark any more," he later said. "It is hard, demanding business...
...hand to Broadway plays (The Whole Town's Talking), novels (A Mouse Is Born) and memoirs of Hollywood (A Girl Like I). Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which formed the basis of two movies and two theatrical productions-notably the 1949 musical starring Carol Channing-was written as a lark during a transcontinental train ride with H.L. Mencken. Said Loos: "My only purpose was to make Henry Mencken laugh, which...
...same class I am ... I'm just a little ahead of him in seniority"). Other tapes showed Co-defendant Alexander Feinberg, 72, Williams' personal attorney, discussing his role in the titanium deal with FBI Operative Weinberg, telling him that Williams is "happy as a lark about...
...schoolboy lark. None of the Dalton gang, even its eighth-grade leader, was prosecuted. But computer specialists were not amused. Besides costing the firms thousands of dollars in computer time, the incident was one more irritating example of the vulnerability of systems an that can have price tags in the millions and store information of incalculable value. It was also a sign of the growing incidence of computer crime...
HAPPY END is schizophrenic--an anomalous lark. The biting, sardonic music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht don't fit the sitcom plot. The play's as far from Brecht & Weill's Three penny Opera as a Keystone Kops film is from Little Caesar. Both plays recount the daring misdeeds and romantic entanglements of a gangster, but Threepenny Opera's sordid outlaws become Happy End's petty, bumbling bullies. Despite a denunciation of capitalism tacked on at the end, Happy End is insubstantial fluff, a romantic comedy expertly staged and acted by the American Repertory Theatre Company...