Word: oyster
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Shawn's oyster rather than an uncrackable egg. The shiver of terror that should accompany the transformation of the timidest soul into the tawdriest heel is thus lost. In scenes of inane family cackle, and in the spectacle of a cuckolded husband applauding his wife flagrante delicto ("Congratulations, Heloise. You're getting better every time"), Playwright Marceau approaches the existential nausea toward life that animates the "theater of the absurd" (TIME, Dec. 22). Sartre and Camus have obviously influenced Marceau, but the guiding philosophy behind Broadway's Egg seems to be Minsky...
Than tears from an oyster...
...Like an Oyster. The church cost $1,250.000 (Wright's fee: $137,500). As with another latter-day Wright design, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, criticisms are harsh. To some observers it suggests a stadium, to others a brooding oyster or a flying saucer. "I can't decide whether it looks like it just got here or like it's just about to leave," muttered one viewer. Another critic grumbles that it is "too small for a bullfight, too large for a cockfight...
...Orloff, 66, Russian prince and army officer who fled the Bolsheviks in 1920, became a U.S. citizen, served as chief United Nations interpreter until 1955, was the deft unofficial translator for the American Broadcasting Co. during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour; of a heart attack; in Oyster...
Poll Watcher. At a total cost of $30 million, PACD has raised rice production through village-scaled irrigation projects to as high as 5,000 Ibs. per acre (nearly five times the Philippine average), re-seeded fishermen's depleted oyster beds, supplied farmers with 10,000 brood sows and helped set up barrio councils to promote self-government. In the process, PACD has made itself the Philippines' most effective weapon against the still-present Communist-led Hukbalahap guerrillas, whose strength has always rested on the misery of the islands' 19 million barrio residents...