Word: quondam
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...thriller. Meet Musty the connection, who regularly runs 2,000 kilos of pot-no more, no less-from Mexico to California; John Thayer Hartnup III, Harvard's richest student and biggest dealer; Sukie, of the long legs and golden tan, whose love scenes with Peter seem cribbed from quondam TV cigarette commercials. Eventually, Sukie is seized with 40 bricks of marijuana in Boston. It all ends as some sort of upside-down revisionist Gangbusters, with the grass-blowing "criminals" in smug pursuit of a narcotics officer...
...progressing into an "Age of Unreason," said the columnist, commentator and quondam politician. Its heroes include "Norman Mailer and a couple of children in tennis shoes deciding to levitate the Pentagon"; its politicians include such men as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who thinks that "a President with too much power is a President without Schlesinger at his side"; its liberal economics lean to the quaint axiom that "there is some virtue in elongating the distance between where a dollar is collected and where it is spent...
That does not seem to bother School Director Peter Marin, 32, who has a B.A. in English from Swarthmore and an M.A. in English from Columbia but was fired from Los Angeles State College because of his "eccentric" teaching ways. A quondam poet who once played poker for a living in Manhattan, he contends that "it doesn't matter what goes on at this school as long as the kids are learning...
...whenever the two deadly combatants bring the theater alive there is a set change. Mother of God, there is a set change. Director Babe cast his show expertly and then he cose a designer. As some kind of answer to Chicago's Picasso, quondam director Timothy Mayer has burst upon the world of set design with his impression of a giant grass-hopper with muscular dystrophy. It is supposed to be a cage of pipe that with the help of movable clothes racks and imaginative props can smoothly transform itself into the show's nine sets. The rearrangement of schematic...
...tendency to mix, or imperfectly finish its conventions. The third act opening (where the play stops because seven of the company are struck with botulism) is magnificent and hilarious because the whole company, especially Beck and Jamie Rosenthal (playing a Miss Somerset playing Sabina, George Antrobus' maid and quondam mistress) degenerates from high flown symbols to grumbling Loebies. The switch is drastic and devastating...