Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warnings are not totally disinterested, as he is the first to point out. His company also manufactures underground sprinkler systems for suburban lawns and golf courses. Toro stands to benefit if people buy more systems to irrigate with controlled rations of water. But that would be only a tiny part of a comprehensive solution...
Students spend hours juggling blueprints, calculators and carpenters' tools in a rustic world of brick-walled classrooms and wood-burning stoves. Despite the casual atmosphere, the program is rigorous. The Hennins and their 15 part-time instructors, all Shelter graduates, guide pupils through an intensive primer of house-building skills, including house design, surveying, masonry, carpentry, plumbing and wiring...
Mary Martin was the first Peter Pan to sing and dance in a full-scale musical. She repeated the role several times on television, and for millions the part will always be hers. But for those seeing the play for the first time, Sandy Duncan will probably seem equally inevitable as the boy who refuses to grow up. Underneath her male costume, Martin was clearly a woman; the difference is not so apparent with Duncan, who is, in fact, closer to James M. Barrie's original conception. Her Peter is androgynous, part boy, part tomboy. As she plays...
...vulnerable and, to those who know her only by reputation, surprisingly funny. Carroll, who commissioned Marty Martin to write a Stein monologue, captures her earthy humor as well as her wit. But at the same time, she conveys the pathos of being fat, female and homosexual in the early part of the 20th century...
...find the Church of England a most lovable and most infuriating body," the new archbishop remarks. People do not hear its message about Jesus Christ, he says, "because they feel the church is linked to an outmoded intellectual system and is part of a dated social world...