Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While that was being done, the skyjackers gave instructions to the pilot, who relayed them to the air controller. A bomb had been placed in a coin locker in the subway station at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. Along with it was a rambling 1,600-word "appeal to the American People" and a 2,500-word declaration of independence for the 4.4 million Croatians, who are a fifth of Yugoslavia's population. The terrorists demanded that these be published next day in five major newspapers (the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles...
...extracting the bomb and the messages from the locker, New York police took successful precautions. They were not so fortunate in attempting to defuse the bomb, which was sealed in a home pressure cooker. When a detonating device failed to explode the bomb, four policemen went to have a closer look, and the bomb suddenly went off. One officer, his chest blown away, died instantly. The others were severely wounded...
...about 1 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon last October. The captain of the Reasonable Women, an intramural basketball team at Catholic University law school in Washington, D.C., was early when she headed into the gym for practice. The women's locker room looked deserted. It was not. As the woman slipped into her togs, a young black man stepped into view. Frightened, she asked him to leave and made a break for the door. He grabbed her, choked her and raped her. When he heard other voices approaching, he escaped...
...attributed to opening night nervousness, but it appears that in the pacing of the play, Thompson again is seeking an inappropriate mood. Miller provides some fine telling moments which are worthy of pauses, but the bulk of the play must be quick-paced. The dialogue is, after all, essentially locker room banter; under Thompson's direction it is transmuted into nervous chatter at a dull cocktail party...
JOHN HAVLICEK attended the opening night of the show, and said at the second intermission that he was enjoying it. "The dialogue is pretty routine, the kind of thing you hear in locker rooms, pretty accurate," he said. "But I don't know, I've never known anyone who was into the heavy stuff the guys in this play are into...