Word: peoria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prospective deal that would prevent the Soviets from replacing every two-stage intermediate-range SS-20 they dismantle with a three-stage intercontinental ballistic missile called the SS-25. That rocket is fired from a similar launcher and can hit not only $ Bonn and Paris but also Boston and Peoria. Substituting SS-25s for SS-20s would violate the 1979 SALT II treaty. But last year the Reagan Administration renounced SALT II and exceeded its limits. The Soviets are free to do the same whenever they choose. Says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Washington-based Arms Control Association: "Given...
...schlepp their show from town to town, ensembles representing recent Broadway hits take to the byways every year. This summer at least a dozen tours have offered purportedly the same entertainments as those on the Great White Way. But are they really? The idea that what you see in Peoria might be every bit as good as Broadway makes many New York theater professionals scoff. In the not too distant past there was ample basis for derision. On this summer's evidence, however, the doubters may be narrow-minded and wrong...
...piercing screams. But where Goldthwait is a demented child, Kinison, who drapes his pudgy frame in the seedy overcoat of a Times Square flasher, is a depraved adult, fuming over the indignities visited on him in the Reaganite, feminist '80s. A former Pentecostal minister who grew up in Peoria, Ill., Kinison, 33, specializes in foulmouthed tirades on sex and religion. Several of his lines had to be blipped from a Saturday Night Live appearance last fall, and HBO was concerned enough about Kinison's raw language to reschedule the debut of his new special, airing this week, partly to avoid...
...Peoria, which has a roomy new theater, goes smoothly. No one in the local crew shows up under the influence of cherry Robitussin, as happened at an earlier stop. No one threatens a sit-down strike, as happened when Burns lit up a cigar in the truck trailer in Madison...
...half-hour approaches, the members of the cast arrive and start to shake off the bus blahs. It is only another show. It is only Peoria. An actor, pretending to be blase, puts on a whiny voice and sings, "It's time to be theatrical again/ It's time to pull out all the stops again." Still, there is an audience out there, and the cast can never get enough laughter and applause. As she rushes offstage in the first act, Kaye remarks, "It's a very user-unfriendly house." Gorshin, who is perennially down, declares, "It's just...