Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems to stem from his sensitivity to other people's sadness. These actors use each other deftly--dodging, fondling, intercepting and abusing one another's banter and bodies. The only remaining character, the Indian, functions as a mere punching bag, a prop that's hardly more human than the bus stop sign. His two-dimensionality is another flaw on the playwright's part, and about all Suchecki (who acts as well as directs) can do in this role is loiter on stage looking inane and pitiable...
...industrial countries was understandable. The conference, lamented New Zealand's Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (who also serves as Finance Minister), was plainly "overshadowed by events." They included the political uncertainties in the U.S., Japan and West Germany, Britain's request for a $3.9 billion IMF loan to prop up its suffering pound sterling, and the growing probability of another price increase by the oil-exporting countries this winter...
Feet firmly planted in conservative black pumps, she stands before audiences with no notes, her only prop a glass of water. With a spontaneity that makes her long-mastered speech sound newly minted, she hard-sells Jimmy Carter. These two sides of Rosalynn Carter, velvet and steel, have caused a minor quandary: she cannot decide whether to dub her swift little campaign plane Magnolia One or First Person, a women's-lib twitting of the First Lady title...
...dollar. The decline was climaxed by a precipitous loss of more than 40 in a single trading session-which, apart from formal devaluations, was the greatest drop in one day since sterling was floated in 1972. By week's end, after the government had announced that it would prop up the pound by asking the International Monetary Fund for a standby loan of $3.9 billion, sterling had recovered some of its loss and stood at a shaky...
...Proposition. If you still haven't seen Cambridge's long-running improvisational revue, hurry down to Inman Square to catch the Prop. Shows are Thursday at 8:30 and Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m. 241 Hampshire St., for more info call...