Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casinos lavish on their best customers. With all its regular rooms occupied, Bally's Grand Casino Hotel one evening assigned her to a suite with a Jacuzzi and a TV hidden in a marble plinth. Unhappily, the upgrade did not result in a night of rest. Explains Painton: "The man in the next room was a lucky gambler who celebrated his big win by singing reggae tunes at the top of his voice." That's Atlantic City...
Bauer is a pseudonym that is also German for farmer. The man could easily have been portrayed as larger than life. His strength, character, knowledge and skills are that impressive. Rhodes takes the all-in-a-day's-work approach, except that most of the workdays seem to be 20 hours long. Tom and wife Sally are awakened by the 6 a.m. farm reports: "They listened to hog and cattle and grain prices and then planned the day's business, sometimes with a little monkey business thrown...
...deer hunt provides a change from the routine hazards of farming. Accompanying Bauer and his friends is an anonymous character known as "the city man" -- almost certainly Rhodes himself -- who accidently discharges his rifle. The bullet passes through the windshield of a truck and the crown of the driver's cap before channeling into the roof of the cab. It is a chilling moment, one in which to give thanks for a tragedy luckily averted and thanks that Rhodes was not similarly careless when reporting on the atom bomb...
With a Yale man in the White House and two others in key Cabinet posts, it is easy to assume that sociological evidence strongly buttresses this % collegiate pecking order. But, in truth, it is nearly impossible to calculate the value added by, say, a Princeton degree compared with one from a selective but less prestigious school. Totting up the comparative educational backgrounds of honorees listed in Who's Who may reveal something about those admitted to Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from...
Sweeney and his landlady are at bottom leftist abstractions. He is the innocent man turned criminal by a wicked power structure; exiled by a corrupt judge who lusted after his wife, he returns vowing to show nobody any more mercy than he received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and grimacing Mother Courage, sapped of moral scruple by economic privation and sheer will to survive. Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton sing nobly, and the production's intimacy includes a welcome emphasis on natural, unmiked sound. She enriches Lovett with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic...