Word: protractedness
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Back in February, the University gave Radcliffe dining hall shop steward Sherman Holcombe his walking papers; Holcombe claimed it was because of his union activity, but the University said it was only because he cooked a batch of cauliflower au gratin too early. Well, we like our cauliflower au gratin...
The reasons for the bitter dissolution of the Beatles, and the protracted legal brawling that followed, are all a matter of public record, if not common knowledge. Once they stopped touring in 1966, the Beatles began to grow in different directions. Their varying attitudes toward business affairs were as typical...
But all of the fine acting, together with the careful direction by Angela Leonard, gets almost lost in the cavernous script, with its protracted, soap-operatic dialogue. Even this cast, with its high level of energy and commitment, cannot salvage such a wreck.
Considering the muscular reputation of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union's first nationwide strike might have been a bruising bout. What the economy, still recovering from recession, least needed was a protracted idling of the big rigs. The worst was not to be. Within two days after...
When the National Theater opens its new quarters on March 16 with a production of Hamlet with Albert Finney in the title role, the occasion will mark both the end and the beginning of an impossibly protracted dream. The first serious proposal for a national theater was made in 1848...