Word: normans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Norman Lear take All in the Family around to union halls or down to a few blue-collar saloons before he inflicted Archie Bunker on us? Thank God that Lear did not get his hands on Roots. He would have turned it into a 400-year-old tap dance...
...industry has been battered further by recent reverses in fights with Government regulators. Last January the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withdrew its endorsement of a bench mark 1974 study by about 60 scientists, headed by Norman Rasmussen. a professor of nuclear engineering at M.I.T. The report rated the chance of a serious nuclear accident about the same as the probability of a meteor hitting a major city (one in a million). An opposing group of scientists, led by University of California Physicist Harold Lewis, had convinced the NRC that the Rasmussen study, while not necessarily wrong, had insufficient statistical basis...
...shuts himself up. Heather can tell when the time is approaching because "he gets slightly weirder and gradually slips into his night routine," writing from 9 p.m. until dawn. A week later he emerges with a new play. Some actually take only six days. One, The Norman Conquests, took eight, but that was a trilogy, so it should have taken 21. "One night," he told TIME's Gerald Clarke, "I finished two of the Normans at once. It was such a strain that I vowed to myself I would never do it again." Why does he write so fast...
...Bedroom Farce is only his 18th play; his 21st, Joking Apart, just opened in London; and his 22nd, Sisterly Feelings, is on tour in England. Ayckbourn enjoys all kinds of games and puzzles-he has a vast game room in Scarborough-and his plays are like Chinese boxes. The Norman Conquests looks at the same people from three different angles; Bedroom Farce hops into three bedrooms; Sisterly Feelings has two third acts. From night to night no one, Ayckbourn included, knows which one will be played. At the end of the second act, one of the actors pulls a coin...
Ultra-steady midfielder Gordie Nelson followed up two minutes later by taking a pretty feed from potentially awesome freshman attackman Norman "Shrub" Forbush (his third assist of the day, and his tenth of the season) and pumping home a key insurance goal...