Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young (average age: 29), New Times can be remarkably undogmatic about politics. Marshall Frady's examination of Democratic candidates in the current New Times comes down hard on several of them. Says Editor Jonathan Z. (for Zerbe) Larsen: "We want to avoid being trapped in a radical, youthquake rut. We're not conservative by any means, but we can be brutal on liberalism...
...class being attacked by fresh fruit, grew to sequences like the Killer Joke that caused everyone to die laughing. Ultimately, the Joke was taken over by the War Office and launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then it suddenly goes crazy...
...student in other words, it's scary to stick your neck out and sometimes you do and you flop miserably. Sometimes the artists in this show flop miserably--but usually because they've fallen prey to the modern student syndrome of not experimenting, or staying in a rut. Those who move beyond the strict confines of a teacher's assignment, if nothing else, escape the mortal sin of being boring. When you're exhibiting in a building that has been likened to two grand pianos fucking, that's something to avoid at all costs...
...defeated, 25-year-old. A supporter high school basketball player, he has seen his dreams of making the pros destroyed by a racist college coach, and he now sweats it out daily, working in a plant with yet another coach-his white foreman. He sees little change of this rut. Clinging tenaciously dreams of glory days gone by, and glory days that should have been, he turns bitter and self-paying and in the end destroys not only himself with his inability to rope with reality, but also the lives of those around him, in anger and frustration over...
...social historical document than an aesthetic success, the piece is played dead seriously but turns out to be quite enjoyable, and, of course, pretty funny to a modern audience. It's good to see the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, always a good, cause, getting out of the Broadway-musical rut they'd been in for their last few productions Originally they were going to do Witness for the Prosecution but the lead got mono. Knowing that Ten Nights is not exactly a household word, the Grant-in-Aid people have decided that the best thing to accompany a temperance play...