Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme than a mere gimmick, exactly as picturing the bride as the Sleeping Beauty seems facile fancy rather than vital symbolism. Whatever the play may thematically profess, much of it theatrically is just old Wilde in new bottles: the triangle, in A Woman of No Importance, of the rich peer, the unwed mother and their son. Laurents' play substitutes beach-house manners for country-house ones; it speaks a livelier lingo in a much less melodramatic voice, and its Mrs. Grundy sports a Southern accent. But even Laurents' "The weak shall inherit the earth" echoes A Woman...
Cross country is largely a psychological sport, and McCurdy has no peer at conning runners into doing better than their best. Bob Knapp, Wes Hildreth, Jack Benjamin, and Greg Baldwin, among others, may pick today to become stars in their own right...
...ever, Thomas seemed reluctant even to take off his sweat suit for early jumps. When the competition began in earnest. Thomas seemed safe enough. The best man of the challenging trio of Russians had never gone over 7 ft. | in. But as the bar rose steadily, Thomas began to peer nervously at the Russians. All four cleared 7 ft. 31n. Then Robert Shavlakadze and Valery Brumel made it over 7 ft. 1 in. to break the Olympic record by 2 in. Twice Thomas missed. The stadium lights were on when he began his third try. His form was as smooth...
...Mount. What chiefly outraged the M.P.s was the fact that the new For eign Secretary was a peer, and therefore could not be cross-examined in the House of Commons. "Utterly retrograde," cried Tory Backbencher Gerald Nabarro. "Effrontery," shouted members of the Conservative M.P.s Foreign Policy Committee. Though there is no written law requiring a Foreign Secretary (or a Prime Minister for that matter) to sit in Commons, M.P.s have taken it pretty much for granted that nowadays such ministers are answerable only to them. Not since before World War II, when the late Lord Halifax served briefly...
...only the oldest continuing Shakespeare stage, but also a shijne and an industry. A quarter-million tourists a year, 25,000 from the U.S., pour into this medieval town in the green-girt Cotswolds to poke curiously through Anne Hathaway's neighboring cottage and peer reverently at Shakespeare's crypt in Holy Trinity Church. The red brick Stratford Memo rial Theater receives 1,000,000 ticket requests annually, is forced to turn down four out of five. The lucky ducat holders this year will pay $500,000 to sit on three sides...