Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curator Clem Conger shut the East Room and put in a new parquet floor. After 30 million tourists since 1948, Lyndon Johnson's Fox-Trot, Jimmy Carter's Charleston and a few other indignities, the wood was paper thin...
...after he informs the eager wives of his secret. The country wife of the title is married to a retired "whoremaster," Pinchwife. He believes in marrying a fool so as to avoid being fooled, but he too is duped by Horner. Pinchwife's jealous attempts to keep his wife shut away from the temptations of the town prove ineffectual in deterring his wife's simple-minded quest for a good time. Meanwhile, there are all sorts of subplots and subthemes, including the rake Harcourt's wooing of Pinchwife's sister, Alithea, away from her foppish fiance, Sparkish...
...satire, and in general the performers make the most of the barb-tongued dialogue. Director Norman Ayrton has captured the stylized nature of Wycherly's society in the highly stylized but rarely obtrusive things he has his cast do. Touches like the ladies' fans, which they snap open and shut in precise timing with their lines, and the gestures of the fops and dandies underscore the contrived nature of the life Wycherly satirizes. In the first scene, everyone who walks on stage stops to preen in a full-length mirror, immediately setting the tone for what follows. Very little...
...puzzles me how the Federal Reserve believes higher interest rates can slow inflation. Interest rates add to costs, which, in turn, contribute to higher prices. They demoralize the securities markets and shut off the flow of capital that business needs to expand capacity and increase productivity. They do not stop the growth of credit because big corporations will pay any price to get money for working capital...
...adult frog cells, but researchers have found that the best results are obtained by using the nuclei from cells of frogs in the early stages of embryonic development. The nuclei of adult animal cells are generally considered poor cloning material, possibly because many of the genes have been irreversibly shut...