Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke is nothing to be unhappy about--he's smooth, fatherly and reassuring. But Shakespeare wrote the part as a playwright's nightmare of schemes gone bad, plots out of control. Apple remains blithe, unperturbed, not the sort of Machiavellian man you'd look towards to resolve the mess at the play's end. He comes off more like the big daddy of a commune in Vermont than Duke of Vienna...
...moved quickly to dissociate the President from Brother Billy's banking. Since Jimmy Carter took office, his 62% share of the family business has been in a blind trust managed by Atlanta Attorney Charles Kirbo. When Kirbo discovered the relaxed management, he quickly moved to straighten out the mess...
...Mayor Dennis Kucinich seems to lend credence to the saying "Never send a boy to do a man's job" [Dec. 25]. Let's hope Santa Claus provided him with enough toys and games so he can amuse himself while the professionals attempt to straighten out the mess. Edward F. Greene Keene...
National Lampoon's Animal House. A hilarious hit-or-mess farce that unabashedly proclaims the primacy of sex and gluttony in campus life...
...lines I never said," he says. "I wouldn't have minded if they put something intelligent in my mouth, but it sounded like third-rate beatnik poetry." Adds Novelist Ken Kesey, another friend of the trio: "I believe in dead rights, that no one has a right to mess with a guy, use Humphrey Bogart to sell batteries on TV, just because he's dead...