Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like a shaft of gold." And the Monty Python stand-by of snappy answers to stupid questions is still occasionally successful. A customer in a cheese store asks without success for every variety of cheese you or your cow ever heard of, until he bursts out: "Do you really have any cheese...
Well, the "post" she may resign was probably a "shaft" to start with, for it seems she has been fairly powerless all along. Perhaps that's why a threat to resign is so nearly-pathetic. (As an Expos. instructor, I worry that I can't quite find the single word that would sum up just how nearly-pathetic; but "anyone", as the Rev. Berryman puts it, "can teach Expository Writing." Just as anyone perhaps can be assistant director of whatever, provided the right person gives...
...remarry-or rather, she remained faithful to the Matchless. For the next 30 years, she wooed lenders and lawyers, fought off creditors and dug relentlessly into her mine. To no avail. Finally, on March 7, 1935, she was found frozen to death in a mountain shack beside the shaft...
...Tony Richardson has done to give A Delicate Balance a cinematic flow is call upon the considerable talents of Cinematographer David Watkin. Having made that excellent choice, Richardson seems to have disappeared. Watkin uses a kind of embellished natural lighting. His uncluttered compositions can shock the eye with a shaft of light from a table lamp or lull it with a suggestion of the dark distances between night and morning. His craftsmanlike photography, at least, makes the film worth looking...
Divorced. Richard Roundtree, 31, portrayer of John Shaft, the leather-suited black private eye who has battered his way through three movies and is now the star of a television series; and Mary Jane Roundtree; after ten years of marriage, five years of separation and two children; in Chicago...