Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was so odd to me is this the beating took at least three minutes. I guess may be an people passed us on the narrow sidewalk Not one individual stopped to help, nor did anyone pause at the police car to tell them there was an assault going on just behind them...
SALEM, MASS. What better place for a few Shakespeare puns to get things rolling? Or at least so conclude Joe Mamma (Jonathan Shapiro) and Stan Byerman (Christopher Charron), the slapstick odd couple who guide the more than three-hour production--albeit with intoxicated intermission--to a safe landing Joe and Stan banter about the bard while awaiting death at the hands of the prim. Puritan populace. In the lively opener, the straightlaced settlers musically proclaim that they have "A Lot at Stake," and then get down to the serious business of witch hunting...
...land itself. "It was a land of excesses--of blazing light and great weathers where a man stood exposed," Madson wrote about the grasslands as they were a century ago. "The wealth of the tall prairie was its undoing." Covetous men subdued it with the steel plow. Odd how history is now repeating itself. Wealth once again is the undoing of the heartland...
Some of the Dead Heads in San Francisco had been to nearly all 60-odd of the shows in 1984, which meant that following the Dead around the country was what they had accomplished for the year. Such wandering is considered not goofing | off but commitment. There were yuppies, who had flown out from New York and paid their fares with plastic. But the stoniest of the pilgrims followed their quest in the elderly bread vans and decommissioned school buses painted with rust primer and furnished with curtains and the kind of mattresses that are chucked under lampposts...
...canon law, which took effect in December of 1983, spells out the rules for all orders, down to such details as living in "their own religious house" rather than an apartment and wearing some kind of religious clothing "as a sign of their consecration." The constitutions of all 300-odd U.S. orders of sisters must conform to the new code. "The issue is simple," one official in the Vatican says of its rulings, "either (the sisters) accept the church's teaching or they don't. Either they are in or they...