Word: played
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told me that I was running a halfway house for transients to and from marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy political treatises, whipping around town in his gold-colored Mercedes and partying with Jordan. Says he: "I work hard and I play hard." Unmarried, Caddell has recently shed 60 lbs. and grown a gray-flecked beard. He has not, however, lost his sense of where he fits into the Administration's power structure. Says he: "I'm less influential than I'd like to think...
...town last week nibblnig at a couple of the coffee drinkers. CBS and Bob Dole cannot be far behind. This about as middle as you can get. And Walter Cronkite really is missed when he disappears from the TV screen and goes off to sail and play tennis...
...play opens with the vulgar Party official Skripkin accompanying his mother-in-law shopping for his upcoming wedding. The first act centers on Skripkin's break with his fellow workers to marry into the petty bourgeoisie. The act is, without exception, unintelligible. The fact that the actors must play different parts in each scene, with no apparent logical transition, just adds to the confusion...
...parade by--it may be monotonous but there is a certain sense to it--but one is constantly distracted by noise from below. One of the features of modern society that Sellars reads into Mayakovsky's vision seems to be a faster pace of life. As the play progresses, he raises decibel levels and frequencies, accelerates speech to screeching chatter and winds his actors up to near-epilepsy. And then suddenly--catanoia: the most tedious final fifteen minutes you'll ever want...
...dropped a five-run lead to the Indians last August, to lose 8-7, Carlton Fisk said, "You have to expect it from them almost. They're as scrappy as a club can be. Of course, they always come here at the bottom of the standings, and when we play the Cleveland Indians, you know they've got nothing to lose...