Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shark with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that may be gobbled up by a mine...
...them is an agent, both are provocateurs. At a time when many agents have turned mercenary, Wylie tops them all in aggressiveness and acerbity. Says he: "This little East Hampton approach to publishing, where publishers and agents share summer houses so that they can get together and shaft the writers, has gone by the board -- I'd like to think partially as a result of our efforts...
Half a dozen firefighters took control of the rescue, opening the outer door to the shaft, shutting off power and telling Lonoff to open the inner door of the elevator and climb down...
...Critics see the potential for mass claustrophobia. For that reason, planners foresee few underground housing projects, at least initially. The idea is to move offices and stores beneath the surface to free up the land above for residential building. People would become vertical commuters, going down a huge elevator shaft to work...
...much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines the piano, which by itself plays an eerily cheerful...