Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After. It is hard to see how any narrative on the subject could avoid being either dogged and dull or archly ironic and malicious. But Playwright Lee Blessing has brought it off. His A Walk in the Woods is a work of passion and power with the ring of political truth. It is not only the best of the few dramas to reach Broadway this season, it is also the funniest comedy...
...take place in what looks like a family doctor's office, but with video cameras and tape recorders as the chief diagnostic tools. Upstairs, in a room decorated with children's posters of properly placed tongues, Brooks sits in front of a mirror. He puts a button-size plastic ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue...
...High Point, Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. Yet voters would just as soon send a member of the G.O.P. to the statehouse or the White House. "I have voted for J.F.K. and for Barry Goldwater," says Paul Hinkle, a purchasing agent at the Drexel Heritage furniture-manufactu ring plant. "I am a registered Democrat, and I intend to vote, but this is the weakest field I have seen in 35 years...
...provided by sources like Gabriel. They contend that the informants attempt to save their own skin by spreading unverifiable tales about prominent people. True, Gabriel is no angel; his DFS job involved reselling drugs that had been seized by other Mexican police. Still, many of his allegations have the ring of truth. Mexico thoroughly reorganized the DFS in 1985. Says one U.S. investigator of Gabriel: "Whom he says he knows, he knows. He calls them. He talks with them about drugs. We're satisfied that what he says is true...
Finally, the man asked the teller to please ring his little bell so that he would know to proceed to his window, at which point the teller told him that the bell was broken. But anality defies pragmatism, and so the man left in a snit, muttering something about system failures and anarchy...