Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Work, Esslin is a genial host of a critic. He shares an avant-garde playwright with his readers in the same enthusiastic way that he might recommend an excellent little restaurant slightly off the tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements...
...regimen Plimpton was in no hurry to establish was that of marriage. When he finally took the plunge-"a tremendous leap into a swimming pool of cold water," as he describes it-he almost forgot to tell the bride, who "really was," she admits, "among the last to know." Though the license had been acquired days in advance, the actual decision was not made until the morning of the wedding day itself. "He had been agonizing for a long time," explains Freddy, 29, who is blonde, green-eyed and a "knockout," in the dispassionate appraisal of one of George...
...John Kennedy once asked him in the White House if he would like to be President for a day. "Sure," Plimpton answered. "What day?" "The 29th of February," Kennedy replied. Richard Nixon had better watch out. Plimpton is not likely to forget that there is such a thing as leap year-and that the 29th of February comes again in 1972. · Gerald Clarke
Fellow Poets. Stretches of Imaginations seem as long, as desolate and as inexplicable as the New Jersey Turnpike. But many passages simply leap to life. As Williams puts it, "Up surges the good zest and the game...
...territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap from private property to public property, they treat women worse than ever...