Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum of privacy." The play proceeds by anecdotes and episodes, some funny, some sad, all telling. Leonard makes the pas sage of time itself a major character in Da. What time does for Charlie is to make him realize that what he yearns to do-exorcise the past-is not only impossible but self-defeating. He is bonded to what he wishes to sunder. Like all of humankind, he belongs to the great...
...could talk like a sage...
...nation's largest firm in the arcane field of commodity options, and in less than two years had spawned twelve offices, reaching west to San Francisco. He lived in a $200,000 harborside house, drove his wife and three daughters around in a Rolls-Royce, and gave sage interviews to Boston newspapers. Last week he appeared to have also been the author of one of the biggest frauds to surface in years...
Shaw is the autocrat of the blackboard. His writing hand flies furiously across the surfaces of his plays, chalking up social, moral and intellectual lessons for the playgoer-students. The class almost always relishes the talking jags of the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence, for he never created a major character who was not indubitably and ebulliently G.B.S...
...must have tender feelings for it; you must have the right touch to turn it into a beautiful thing." The 250-Ib. sybarite, who learned how to make ravioli from Sophia Loren while shooting Man of La Mancha in Rome five years ago, adds ?with a touch of sage: "For me, cooking and eating ease all pain. When I am unhappy, I cook and eat. When I am happy, I cook and eat as a celebration...