Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nick Ritcher...
...Midway," lined with circus wagons exhibiting such Krofftian put-ons as the Fat Lady, who turns out to be a performer garbed as a super-porker, and the Tattooed Lady, who is costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls, and minstrels stroll. On the next level is a nonstop vaudeville show and a sparkling crystal carousel filled with dolphins, Pegasi, centaurs, griffins and a 3,500-lb. whale...
...poet of profit and loss. He knows, for example, how to turn a dollar from "the jetsam set," those people who lust for cut-rate, damaged merchandise: "Bang the canned goods, put little holes in the shirttails," he tells the manager of his Railroad Salvage store. "Dent the toasters, nick the toys. Give them train wreck, give them capsize, give them totaled, head-on and what's spilled to the road from the jackknifed...
Really Big. Seniors Nick Lemann and Peter Kaplan will read their one-act play, a comedy about the rise and cooptation of two 1930s Hollywood screenwriters, in the Leverett Old Library Theater, Sunday night at 8. It's free, and lasts about 45 minutes. That's it for Harvard shows, but it you're feeling adventurous and want to go beyond the confines of the campus...
...Part-time workers are so zealous, according to some studies, that they are almost certain to put in more than half a day's work in half a day's time. "Two teachers working half of the time bring additional energy and enthusiasm to the classroom," says Nick Gervase, personnel chief for the Santa Clara Unified School District in California...