Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three Sisters there is a spine, but it is submerged well below the surface--like almost everything else in the play. The work requires a lot from its audience, which may easily choose to be just as board as some of Chekhov's characters claim to be. People say there is no plot. In a way they are right. Instead, there is a congeries of tiny plotlets, ever so delicately and carefully contrived...
...Later in the week, Arena told reporters: "You people have been asking a lot of questions about manslaughter and about other driving charges. The only case I have is of leaving the scene of an accident. We have no witness who saw him driving. From my study of the scene, the dirt road, the darkness, the narrow bridge where the car fell, it was an accident, a true accident." Actually, under Massachusetts law, a charge of manslaughter, which requires "willful or wanton" conduct, would have been very unlikely. Even assuming the worst, Kennedy's actions would probably not have...
...both black and white liberals. Phillips acknowledges that he expects to be accused of deepening racial discord and promoting segregationist politics, but, he adds: "I don't say that it should happen, I just say that it does happen. We have always had these ethnic cleavages, despite a lot of effort to pretend that they will go away...
That series, at least, made ABC a lot of money, and the real cliffhanging question in The Survivors melodrama is whether Robbins has given the network a treat or a treatment. With his two-year guarantee, he has less to lose than the network if the show doesn't survive the second season. No matter what happens, Robbins will continue to be as rich as Krakos...
...which Miss Babel has included in her book, he told the hounding members of the Union of Soviet Writers: "You talk about my silence. Let me tell you a secret. I have wasted several years trying, with due regard to my own tastes, to write lengthily, with a lot of detail and philosophy -striving for the sort of truth I have been talking about. It didn't work out with me. And so, although I'm a devotee of Tolstoy, in order to achieve something I have to work in a way opposite...