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That joke was told in Nazareth last week as bands of volunteers scrubbed down the city's scabrous Cactus Quarter for what may have been the first time in 2,000 years. They painted shabby schoolrooms, removed piles of rubbish and hacked away at overgrown cactus plants. "The city has no money and so we are doing the work," explained Ghassoub Matar, 22, a painter...
Paxton and freshman Gene Purdy fired workmanlike rounds of 79 and 80 respectively but had trouble negotiating Hanover's stubby, dried out and overall scabrous greens. The two fell prey to the general inability to get pitch shots up and down, as Purdy nailed 14 greens but 3-putted five...
...decision, Ted Kennedy referred to a "small and vociferous group that was prepared to entangle" the Cambridge site in lawsuits for years. No such trouble is expected at the U. Mass, site - a barren waterfront strip of filled land, once a city dump, that adjoins the decaying, half-deserted, scabrous Columbia Point housing project. Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for May 29, which would have been J.F.K.'s 59th birthday...
Mert and Phil is a jarring mismatch between the drama of oppressive realism and the theater of the absurd. It is scabrous in word and action. Some of it is quite funny; some of it is extremely sad. It possesses a barbed honesty that obviously unsettled some of the playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...
...year-old Long Island widow came in with a scabrous painting that turned out to be an 18th century Italian portrait. A Westchester woman brought in a goblet that her family had bought at Tiffany's for $300 in 1894. Present value: around $12,000. A landscape owned by a man from Long Island turned out to be the work of the 18th century English painter Thomas Patch, worth a patch above $30,000. A Connecticut man brought in a trifle inherited from his Uncle Harold that was diagnosed as a contemporary portrait of George Washington on glass...