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Loyal Key Westers, fearing that such incidents might frighten away tourists, insisted that they had never heard of barracuda bothering anyone on the shallow beaches. What the Secret Service men saw, they said, might have been mullet, which are no more dangerous than un-swallowed goldfish...
...other hand, I thought Al Marre's Edmund was shallow in conception and sloppy in execution. Nancy Marchand was not up to Jan Farrand's earlier performance as Regan, and Miss Farrand herself was not sweet and simple enough as Cordelia. Cavada Humphrey, I think, missed the viper quality in Goneril...
Creole did not always belong to Jersey. The name was engraved originally on the shares of a stock promotion of the '20s called the Creole Syndicate, which had concessions on an expanse of shallow water in Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela, covering a tremendous oil reservoir. Jersey bought control of the syndicate, combined it with other Venezuelan holdings into Creole Petroleum Corp., punched holes into Lake Maracaibo's bottom from specially developed drilling barges. Now there are 2,000 lake wells, each a little steel-and-concrete island separated by a strip of water, forming...
...been invented, so the people of Jarmo planted their crops with weighted digging sticks and reaped them with flint sickles. They grew barley, two kinds of wheat and some sort of legume, probably peas. At first they ground grain by rubbing it with a stone in a shallow stone dish. Later they developed effective mortars and pestles. They baked their bread in mud ovens stoked from the courtyard...
WGBH is designed also for those Bostonians who are fed up with the endless parade of soap-operas, vaudevillian corn, shallow theatricals, and bebop concerts. It offers the culture-starved full length drama performances, live music concerts, poetry read by the authors, and--most novel of all--regular courses recorded in classrooms of local colleges and universities. For those who like their news with a dash of intelligence, WGBH will call in faculty experts to analyze and interpret current affairs. Those whose yen for practical information goes beyond the chatty shopper's guide will get advice from such institutions...