Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being the first financially viable political magazine, ever," he said, adding that unlike other political journals, his magazine is not financed by a foundation and will not be paid for out-of-pocket if sales do not grow...
...group of about 200 Republicans, the only hint of Dole's handicap comes when he advocates returning power to the states. That's what the 10th Amendment commands, he says as he yanks a copy from his shirt pocket. "You don't make the mistake of misstating the Constitution," he explains, reading the 28 words he knows by heart. The move to the pocket is practiced but still a chore, and the audience notices. "I can't get stuff out of my pants pockets," Dole says later. "That's why I keep it in my shirt," along with a spare...
...times have changed. Not all of us carry pocket editions of Homer, in our bags. Come on, now, who has room for Homer when you are carrying a case of Bad Light...
Allan Piper's lanky Hamlet resembles a figure from an Evelyn Waugh novel, dressed in Edwardian finery and scribbling in a little notebook he keeps in his breast pocket. His initial monologues are compelling and his command of the verse consistently excellent. As the play progresses, however, Piper seems to run out of emotions: he alternates between declamation and manis, with little variation...
...kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity and enthusiasm. To do it with HRDC's limited resources, and to do it well, would be something like a triumph...