Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TEA PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In any Pinter play, the denouement is total uncertainty. The audience knows less in the end than it thought it knew at the beginning. Even though these two one-acters are lesser Pinter, the playgoer is still held in the author's subtle grip...
In this story-which some Dickens readers consider his greatest-an impoverished old woman, Betty Higden, talks to some callers about having given a home to a poor, gangling, half-witted boy who is known only as "Sloppy." She says that Sloppy is "a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He...
If I am allowed to continue to "double as secretary of the CEP," I hope I can continue to depend upon someone like Mr. Alexander to sharpen my prose by the judicious use of ellipses and to clarify its meaning by keeping it free from the confusions of context. Edward...
THE THANKSGIVING VISITOR (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Something of a sequel to Truman Capote's award-winning "A Christmas Memory" stars Geraldine Page in an affecting tale about the meaning of Thanksgiving. Produced, directed and adapted by Frank and Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa), and Capote.
Hemophilic Heart. Among other things, says Friendly, the Fifth was designed to prevent a defendant from "being dragged, kicking and screaming, to the witness stand." But Friendly does not see how the Supreme Court can interpret it as meaning the state cannot compel a person to produce documents and records...