Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sabre team should be a dominating factor in New haven." Marion said yesterday, "because Yale really is not on a par with us in that weapon...
...probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff the pun until it shone like art. Says the bleeding Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." "You see how this world goes," Lear...
...selling gang have appeared on U.S. television. Yet the hopes of health authorities that a tar-free screen might help cut down on cigarette consumption have gone up in, well, a puff of smoke. Per capita use of cigarettes in 1971, at 132.4 packs, stayed just about on a par with that of other recent years, and total cigarette sales increased by a solid...
...Survival of St. Joan (Par amount, $9.96; two LPs). The cast recording of a 1971 off -Broadway show based on the legend that Joan's life was spared by substituting another girl at the stake. Though hardly an orthodox look at Joan (among other things, she has a love affair with a farmer), Survival comes across well enough on disk, largely because the group Smokerise manages to operate within the rock mainstream (Beatles to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and still have something original...
...justice the same court that sentenced him should proceed at once to close down 90 per cent of the movies now playing and the newspapers that carry their advertising. Compared to the usual run of entertainment in this country, Ginzburg's publications and his ads are on a par with the National Geographic." The fact that this decision comes in 1972 further points up the anachronism and foolishness of all laws abridging freedom of the press...