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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caveat. An Al-verb, a victim of the general's verification program, to which resistance is verboten for even the most insolent little noun. As in: "I'll have to caveat my response, Senator...
...play trips down a path paved with jokes on foreign phrases, sight gags with panties, and tongue-twisting lists of pub names. Stoppard's ear for the curious-sounding proper noun is responsible for many of Dirty Linen's laughs; but between this dependence on the odd British name and the peculiarly British obsession with both perpetrating and denouncing scandalous activity, the play poses special difficulties for American performers. The Winthrop cast meets its challenge with modest skill, and no pretense of doing anything more than presenting a funny play. The script plasters over its mediocre theme with superficially brilliant...
...deserve our own noun-niphophile, meaning a snow lover. There aren't many of us. And John Skew's "Waiting for the Big One" [Jan. 14] deserves eternal preservation. In southwestern Michigan the situation is abominable. By this time last year we had been blessed with more than 70 in. of white delight. All we have to keep us niphophiles going is the nearly poetic prose of snow aficionados like John Skow...