Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience long enough. With all the problems of the world to deal with, the play just wanders like a chicken with its head cut off, until the end when all the principals, including the entire tribe, get blown away in less than 30 seconds. For two acts that seem to last longer than the Normandy Invasion, the audience must bear with what passes for dialogue composed of tribal myths, the ramblings of a sensitive and frustrated anthropologist, and the rantings of West and his engaging but strident captor, Carlos...
...waythings started out--before a crowd of 19,000 in 65-degree conditions--it didn't even seem that Harvard would have a chance to be involved in a pell-mell finish...
...Middletown' Revisited" [Oct. 16] reminded me of my own town. People seem to think that things have changed a great deal, but I can still enjoy the same things my parents...
Ater so many years of talks, protests and promises on both sides, the squabbling between the U.S. and Japan over trade might be expected to subside. In fact, tempers seem to be getting worse, not better. Yankee businessmen complain that they are still all but shut out of the Japanese market, and more and more of the American consumers who buy the goods that the Japanese export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries...
...moves in Detroit's long history of high-level executive swapping. Iacocca was appearing at a press conference in the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of his new employer with his new boss, Chrysler Chairman John J. Riccardo, whom almost no one ever calls Johnny. But Riccardo did not seem to mind the unaccustomed familiarity. Speaking of the man just named by Chrysler's board as the troubled company's new president, Riccardo beamed and said he was "personally, extremely pleased...