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Pinter makes arresting drama out of platitudes. His characters are listless nobodies who prattle witlessly about the weather, the neighbors, about eating and sleeping. Cooped up in wretched little rooms, they fondle material possessions and mull over memories like savages, so drugged by habit that paltry incidents pass for news. They soak up mundane sensory experience through a screen of simple-minded, petulant prejudices...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: The Dumbwaiter and The Room | 4/28/1964 | See Source »

...discover something never lost in this great city of Dallas. I speak of justice." He reviewed the psychiatric evidence, thumped a green cardboard box containing the stack of charts tracing Ruby's brain wave. At the defense table, big Joe Tonahill wept. Jack Ruby, chalk-white, sat listless and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Death for Ruby | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...tests, Warshaw's pupils pushed their grades to high levels, and a couple of students named Cohen and O'Connell got perfect scores. Parents were grateful; Warshaw got not a single complaint from them, even though his students included believers in all faiths, plus "nonbelievers from the listless to the atheistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Does Sodom Love Gomorrah? | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...insults at Sonny and his wife. He threatened to picket Liston's training camp. He offered to fight Sonny on the street, for free. "I cannot be beaten," he insisted. "It's prophesied for me to be successful." But at his public training sessions, Clay looked impressively listless. The experts hooted. And the prefight weigh-in did nothing to change their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: With Mouth & Magic | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...same Harvard team which took the court in the second half. Their shooting was mediocre and their rebounding sometimes listless, sometimes non-existent...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Crimson Quintet Bows to B.U., 77-66; Lack of Depth Spoils Bid for Upset | 12/9/1963 | See Source »

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