Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brecht smiles tolerantly. Off to the left the billows of cloud are agitated. Out of the turbulance emerges a small figure, black-haired and mustachioed. He turns three somersaults in plain view of the two authors. We discover he is Brecht's Arturo Ui. "In America," he says, "they think Three Penny Opera is a musical comedy." Brecht begins to weep. Ibsen hugs himself, pulls his knees up to his chest and falls off the chair, laughing...
...Morton's depression, for himself, his party and nation, was too much. Last week he announced his retirement. Creating a vacuum that could splinter Republican power in Kentucky, the 60-year-old Morton told the press: "To use an old Kentucky expression, I suppose I am just plain 'track sore...
...most prestigious colleges will forbid their professors to publish until they have been on the faculty five or even ten years." The only exception, he suggests, should be publication by television, in which a scholar "who has something important to say goes before cameras to say it in plain language to the general public...
...more compelling explanation is offered by Sanford Watzman, whose articles about Defense waste in the Cleveland Plain Dealer were inserted in the Congressional Record last fall. Watzman attributes the runoff in defense funds and profiteering by the contractors to the "symbiotic relationship" of the "military-industrial complex." One lives off the other and vice-versa. As the result, the public is fleeced...
...Deal, by G. William Marshall (511 pages; Bartholomew House; $6.95) is notable, by contrast, for its more traditional approach. No new-fangled gadgets here; just the plain, old-fashioned dildo. That is understandable, since the plot is a plain, old-fashioned story about the raunchy movie world. The hero is "the Baron," Hollywood's No. 1 superstar. He has a "tremendous problem." He is forever being "laughed out of bedrooms," so he asks the boys over an makeup to fashion a substitute artifact for him. He kills a girl with...