Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposing the Crimson backfield will be a light and very fast set of Ohio backs. Averaging 175 pounds to the Crimson's 190-pound average, the Bobcats will rely on the speed of left halfback Les Carney, who can cover the length of the field in about 10 seconds, and the deception of an unusual "I" formation...
Kilty's only error is his staging of Cyrano's improvised ballade duel. But then I have never seen this scene done correctly outside of France. This is supposed to be a feat to epater les bourgeois. And the feat lies neither in expert swordplay nor in improvising a poem about it, but rather in doing both simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue...
...section could be interpreted, said Les Arends, as "a political provision whereby members of Congress can stop the Secretary of Defense from closing commercial activity in their districts. Much is said here on the floor about the size of the federal budget, and we have been seeking ways to cut the cost of Government. By terminating or curtailing Government business-type activities that rightfully belong to private enterprise, we can reduce Government costs. And yet it is proposed by this section to retard and obstruct such a program...
...quarter hours. He had Robert Brustein compose and, in the persona of Moliere, deliver a prologue and epilogue; the prologue was appropriate enough, but the epilogue was ineffectual and ill-advisd. He furthermore incorporated, by changing the sex or name of some of the characters, scenes from Les fourberies de Scapin, which Moliere penned right after finishing the present work--specifically, the portions dealing with the extortion of ransom money for a phony kidnapping. In principle I do not approve of the directorial use of scissors and paste; but in this case I am forced to admit that the practice...
When Mark Twain toured Europe in 1891, he discovered that France had just the treatment for his rheumatic right arm: a soothing bath of spring water at Aix-les-Bains. "I began to take the baths and found them most enjoyable," he wrote, "so enjoyable that if I hadn't had a disease I would have borrowed one just to have a pretext for going...