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...York Idea. Essentially, the New York idea is divorce and^ the notion that divorced couples can be amiable friends and chase after their respective ex-spouses. These propositions were as scandalous in 1906 as they are commonplace today. But the play lives because its humor has the pinpoint carbonation of champagne and a tipsily endearing bias toward romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Divorce in Sportive High Style | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...says Carr, as the spotlights pierce through the sudden darkness to pinpoint the tottering old man, "in the witness box, case practically won, and I flung at him: 'And what did you do in the Great War?' 'I wrote Ulysses, what did you do?'" The first act ends; the audience catches its breath...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Pulling Out All the Stops | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

Despite vast amounts of research in the area, Harvard biologists have failed to pinpoint the precise physiological cause for so-called "spring fever...

Author: By Wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Unusually Warm Weather Upsets Students' Hormones | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

Marciano said it will probably be impossible to pinpoint the cause of this vacation's only freeze, because the contributing factors range from the affected wing's northerly exposure to open flues in the chimneys...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: It Seemed Too Good To Be True | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...didn't roll for him, either," said an awed Donovan recounting Spence's drive. "You really have to pinpoint it," he added...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: ECAC Shocker: Golfers Stymie Field | 10/5/1976 | See Source »

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