Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...king is told his fate with absurd and explicit clarity at the play's beginning: "You're going to die in an hour and a half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once...
...gregarious, cultivated gypsy. He is small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 Ibs.), but his tousled sable locks, his honey-colored aquiline features and voracious energy give him the appeal of a matinee idol and make him a kind of culture hero. Even the English translation of his first name-"powerful sword"-seems to personify his character. In Los Angeles, strangers hail him as "Zubi baby." Everywhere, the wealthy and famous seek him out, and females from teeny-boppers to blue-haired patronesses shiver
...practice until he joined American in 1959 as general counsel. During the feud between Sadler and Hogan, Spater was given more and more responsibility, ended up as a natural successor to both. Ironically, in his new position Spater will gain something that Sadler has always wanted but never got. Naming him president this week, American's board of directors is also expected to name him chief executive, succeeding C. R. Smith...
...million has been earmarked for mines, refineries and smelters around the town of Thompson in northern Manitoba. The expense is worth it. When in full swing, Inco will be producing no less than 25% of the free world's nickel which will be drawn from three Thompson mines named Pipe, Birchtree and Soab. Interestingly, the Soab lode rests partly under a lake with the same name. Two geologists, sent out after World War II by the Canadian government to map and name western lakes, had trouble getting their seaplane airborne from that one. In angry retaliation they called...
...hotel scene where Benjamin insists on talk before sex, then allows her to become a stock villainess who appears in the last hour for five minutes to serve an archetypal function as Dracula's daughter. Sensing the glaring omission of Bancroft, Nichols instructs Simon and Garfunkle to put her name in a song insert, a gratuitous gesture matched only by her one-line appearance at the wedding finale...