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...area, most of it performed by energetic non-professional groups. Now there's nothing wrong with that, God knows, but every now and then we get a hankering for real theater--the stuff the pros put on, and the nearest you can usually get to that around here is (retch) dinner theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGE | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

Monday, November 29: Your metabolism is now running post patterns. You feel disoriented in class and experience stomach spasms when you eat square meals. Ironically, Kaopectate is the only thing that keeps you running. Monday Night Football. Cosell's face. You retch. This game passes...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Thanksgridding Guide | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

Barry Manilow, recently discharged from the Red Line, will be in concert with Lady Flash at 8 p.m. at the Music Hall the same night. If you time it right, you can go to all three, and be back in your pitiful Mather House cubicle in time to retch...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: ROCK | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

What does a very funny writer do whose laughter is always choking into a retch? Among other stratagems, Wilson has tried to revive the well-made Victorian novel (see The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot). He has sketched portraits of the very old and the very young (Late Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vile Bodies Revisited | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...Nixon campaign teams in 1960 and 1968. There have been disturbing indications that Gray is not the wholly apolitical administrator that he now claims to be. Back in 1969, when he joined the Health, Education and Welfare Department, he told a meeting of Administration appointees, "Do not retch or quiver when we insist that the preponderant majority of our colleagues-political appointees-be members of our own party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Tattletale Gray | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

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