Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater as a "gymnasium," New York Times Critic Clive Barnes called the revival of the 1944 work "magnificent." After offering praise to Stapleton and Cast Members Rip Torn, Pamela Payton-Wright and Paul Rudd, Tennessee expressed some surprise at Menagerie's longevity. "They teach it in college now, and everybody approaches it as though it were a place of worship," he observed. "Frankly, I fall asleep at times...
...permitting good word of mouth to build, saturation bookings timed to coincide with the Academy Award nominations that the director and studio believe are inevitable. Warner salesmen wish they had something simpler on then-hands-a great sloshy romance like Dr. Zhivago, for instance, or at least a rollicking rip-off of olden times, like Tom Jones. Now Kubrick will help sell his picture. Among other things, he employs a bookkeeper to chart how films have played in the first-run houses of key cities, so his films can be booked into those with the best records. But the fact...
...technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water into steam. The resulting blasts rip open the power plant's massive concrete dome, releasing a cloud of radioactive gases. Tens of thousands of people living near by are contaminated by radioactivity. Many die within days. Others suffer lingering illnesses and develop cancer years later...
...preaching in 1947. "Elijah blushed and Heaven's flag flew at half-mast for three days," he says. In classic bootstrap style, Hyles proceeded to enroll in speech courses while clerking at J.C. Penney's in Marshall, Texas. Before long, he was wowing audiences with a folksy, rip-roaring delivery. He took a church and was summoned to the Hammond pulpit...
...believer in returning favors, especially between good friends like you and me, but do you have to reciprocate this weekend of all times? This weekend, when a) all of the alumni are coming to the party, b) it's the biggest event down here since the days of Rip Engle, and c) my labors in planning for this celebration, the occurence of which I've been anticipating for almost three years, will only be rewarded if you behave...