Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these humorous one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May wrote as well, has the ironic viewpoint that life is a game played on the contestant. In Terrence McNally's Next, James Coco gives a fine performance as a potbellied, middle-aged businessman summoned for the draft through an obvious computer error...
...from the trans-Sinai railway line), which the Israelis claim can withstand a direct hit from a 130-mm. shell-one reason why their casualties were so light. If the shelling continues, the Israelis warned last week, they have no intention of sitting tight forever in their bunkers. One obvious target for reprisal: Port Said, out of range of Israel's artillery but not its jets...
...least, derives from the Chaldeans of the Babylonian Empire who sent Berosus and his fellow astromancers up the ziggurats to study the stars for clues to human destiny. The assumption was only natural. The influences of the sun on the earth and the moon on the seas were obvious, and it was easy to suppose that those other bright deities, the planets?which seemed to be advancing, receding, moving up and down and backward among the fixed stars?should be concerned with wars and governments and the destinies of men on earth...
...added three more Italian roles-she wanted to devote her voice to the Ring-and even carelessly scheduled one performance on the very day she was flying in from Europe. True, the Met then tried to make amends, but too late. "We singers," said Nilsson, in an obvious understatement, "are very sensitive people." exit diva, stage left, curtain...
...stuff of social fable, religious parable, supernatural fantasy or even black comedy. Sadly, it too often emerges as little more than a tepid and distended mood piece. The hero is literally too cold and stiff, the plot too standpattish, the pace too funereal and the symbolism too obvious...