Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they become convinced that the U.S will stick to a clear-cut economic policy. In Whitman's view, the Administration's dollar-revival plan consists of one Band-Aid and one magic bullet. The move to big intervention-selling gold, buying dollars-will barely patch a scratch. But the shift to tighter money, she believes, will be the real cure for the dollar's debilities. The trouble is, the early side effects will be bad: higher interest rates, which lead to higher prices for a while. In time, however, the stringent money policy will force inflation down...
...really likes to scratch and bite...
Despite the title, Shark is not another Jaws rip-off. It concerns two days--the eve and the aftermath of a day-long golf tournament--in the lives of (what else?) several golf caddies. Playwright T.J. Camp focuses on the trivia of his characters' lives--quarrels, flirtations, games--that scratch the surface of more serious conflicts, mostly based on the black caddies' feelings about working in an all-white country club. Only the tips of these deeper issues appear, however; what dominates is verbal and slapstick wit. At the Boston Center for the Arts at the Ehrlich Theatre, 536 Tremont...
This year's room, he says, promises to be more aesthetic, less angular than last year's. And, like last year's Kasper is designing the entire project from scratch. He is careful to stay within University regulations by not nailing anything into the wall; all his structures are self-supporting...
...entirely with a ghost and a father who would for a long time remain "in the dusk of his grief over the loss of a wife when she was only 31. The father was short, wiry, horse-stomped, work-scarred, a ranch hand, a sheep tender, a survivor of scratch-hard mountain life who cherished the few years he and his bride had followed their flocks among the timeless hills. He faced life with a "dry half-grin" and wore for good a scar on his chin-"a single quick notch at the bottom of his face...