Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers are almost impossible to fathom--as even the author admits--but the naivete of those who fall into his trap is even harder to understand. "Months later," Thompson writers, "an Interpol detective in Paris, would study the case and wonder why in the name of God these poor people didn't figure out what was goin on?" When somebody finally does put the pieces together--the unlikely hero is a sniveling Dutch embassy employee--it is about ten people too late. Sobhraj--who has escaped from prisons and tight situations like a super criminal--proves mortal. Having tred...
Darkness won the fourth singles, as Abby Meiselman split sets with Brenda Erie, 6-1, 4-6, before the match was called because of poor visibility...
...emotional nature of the Harvard-Tufts rivalry was underscored as the Crimson prepared to return to Cambridge. In an exceedingly shocking display of poor taste combined with poor sportsmanship, the Tuft's coach, armed with his own copy of "How to Play Dirty Tennis," congratulated the women for their victory, but questioned the ethical standards of the team. Several Tufts players have lost matches to Harvard in the tournaments held this fall...
...body of a peasant. He descended the airplane ramp and kissed the asphalt of East Boston. And through the cluttered landscape of eyes and ears and signs that viewed him, he smiled warmly and told them all to condemn abortion, to uphold marriage, to aid the weary and the poor. He looked at masses of well-to-do's, of down-vested students all packed off to Business and Law and Success School and told them to forsake "possessions" and to forsake themselves, for Christ...
Such apparent indecision on the director's part knocks the audience off balance. It doesn't help that Cain chooses the very middle of Act III--right before Lear enter's Poor Tom's hovel--for his intermission; the mounting horror in the theater suddenly dissipates when you buy your "Jamaica Cola" in the lobby, and it's difficult to take Lear's self-dramatizing declamation right after a desultory intermission conversation, or a trip to the rest rooms. Thus such atrocities as the general guffaw that followed Lear's "Didst thou give all to thy daughters?" last Thursday night...