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Think that nothing of importance ever happened in August? That's how much you know. The first execution by electrocution was performed in August 1890. Judge Crater disappeared in August, plumb vanished from the middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky was murdered on Aug. 20, 1940. The month is famous for violent acts. In August 1914 Germany got World War I going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August...
...been to pin teammates on the locker-room wall if they neglected to meet his standards. As a coach, he is hard on the furniture. "When the players walked in the first day," recalls Payton, "Mike was standing there with his arms folded. He nodded to [Assistant] Ted Plumb, who started calling roll. I thought, 'We're in the Army now.' "Ditka, 46, is from Aliquippa, Pa., and his people are from the Ukraine, Nagurski stock. A Canadian who has lived most of his rich life just across a frozen lake in Minnesota, Bronko, 77, once claimed to have...
...life care facility, including, by its end, two deaths. Yet even in such a setting the writers, cast, and crew manage to treat these events with an uncommon grace, wit, and energy, yielding an incredibly original, remarkably touching, and funny production. As a stereotypically grumpy old man, Mr. Horace Plumb is remarkable for his unusually biting sense of humor. In fact, towards the beginning of the play, Duncan, the hospice’s awkward and idealistic young social director, good naturedly enters Mr. Plumb’s room and, upon seeing him, tries to lift his spirits by saying...
...drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear up the field for junior varsity...
...VOYAGER Bette Davis and Paul Henreid plumb the ecstasy of forbidden love. "Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars...