Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carpenter's strike halted all work on the project for 45 days in early summer, until contractors agreed to raise wages by $5.60 per hour. One worker helping build the Porter Square station of the new route was killed in a cave-in just weeks after construction resumed...
This Roundabout Theater revival is scintillating. Top honors must go to Stephen Porter, whose direction is lucid, polished and springy. His performers shine. Inside Tarleton's paunchy "ridiculous old shopkeeper," Bosco releases an intrepid explorer of the intellect. Elliott's "Polish lady" is a feminine blowtorch, and Heald's Gunner is infallibly on key, whether arrogant, cringing or crying drunk. As ever, the superstar is G.B.S., that Irish imp of genius...
...parents who hope to get their children into a traditional prep school like Lake Forest, that may be good advice. But in the past decade private schools have grown bewilderingly diverse. The 1980 Porter Sargent Handbook of Private Schools lists 1,800. Counselors provide a helping hand through the pedagogical thicket, especially to the increasing number of parents who are uneasily exploring for the first time the once snobbish world of prep schools...
...Cole Porter's song from Anything Goes (1934) had the line "I get no kick from cocaine." It was some times amended to "Some like the perfumes of Spain...
...Texas sharecropper, Bradley moved West with his parents at age seven in a used Model T. His father struggled to support the family as a waiter and railroad porter and eventually separated from his wife. During the Depression the Bradleys had to accept public assistance, in those days the equivalent of welfare. A gifted runner, the 6-ft. 4-in. Bradley won an athletic scholarship to U.C.L.A. but quit school to join the city police department. After 21 years on the force, he used the law degree he had earned at night to start a practice. In 1969, following...