Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orton's grisly end and stark beginnings enclose one of the most compelling biographies of the past year, a psychological study of egos in conflict, marred but not destroyed by Author John Lahr's overlong digressions into literary analysis...
Fame took its time, but when it finally arrived it compensated for past neglect. Orton made his breakthrough in 1964 with Entertaining Mr. Shane. Like all of Orton's comedies, it teased polite British hypocrisy, and even audiences of the '60s were shocked by his placement of outrageous behavior in a conventional setting. Loot followed in 1966, and What the Butler Saw posthumously in 1969. Success liberated Orton's talent, and in the months before he was killed, his prodigious mind was bursting with what Lahr calls "gorgeous, wicked fun." What Orton might have accomplished remains...
...Pinckney, the Revolutionary War officer remembered for his "incredibly bad military advice." The works themselves are undistinguished, apart from the self-portraits by Mary Cassatt and Edward Hopper; but these busts, etchings, daguerreotypes, oils and sketches constitute a museum of the human physiognomy-and of our civilization over the past two centuries...
Back in 1976, when Jerry Ford was still President and Shirley Babashoff was still queen of American women's swimming, the muscular mermaids from the German Democratic Republic capped their dramatic rise to aquatic supremacy by taking 11 of 13 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. This past summer, a band of upstart teenagers from the U.S., weaned on heavy weight-training programs and enticed by the prospect of increasingly available college scholarships, startled more than a few people at the World Championships in West Berlin by swiping nine gold medals while their supposedly awesome rivals managed only...
...second annual USA Women's International Swimming Competition, held at Harvard's Blodgett Pool this past weekend, was supposed to be the German team's first shot at avenging their embarrassment at Berlin. At first glance, the meet results show that they did so with style: 7 gold medals and 2 U.S. Open records (basically equivalent to world records for yards). But the real story behind this weekend's gathering was the guests who didn't show up--among them Tracy Caulkins (five gold medals, four world records at Berlin), Joan Pennington (two golds, one silver), Kim Linehan (former...