Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoping for a triumphant fall opening on Broadway, Playwright Tennessee Williams instead suffered a swift summer closing in Boston. Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign had David Merrick as co-producer and Anthony Quinn in the leading role as a brain-damaged mariachi. The play lasted less than three weeks before local critics turned off the lights. "Dreadful," snipped the Boston Globe of Williams' first drama since Outcry in 1973, "a flickering shadow of his former self." The Boston Herald American said the play "teeters and totters eerily between true tragedy and mawkish melodrama." Complaining that...
...veto, can actually abolish the command. There is speculation that the U.S. will agree to discuss the removal of its troops from under the U.N. command structure before a vote is taken in the General Assembly. In either case, the resulting propaganda gains for Pyongyang would be an unwanted sign to Seoul of the extent to which the hated North has gained support throughout the world (see story page...
...epistemological debate and the religious monologue. "Socrates is a man; all men are mortal; therefore all men are Socrates," concludes Boris. It is this kind of syllogism that moves him to assassinate Napoleon, an adventure that ends, of course, with the wrong man slain. No matter. A celestial sign appears and Boris trills: "I will run, not walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . I will dwell in the house of the Lord for six months with an option...
...sign may say WELCOME TO QUAINTSVILLE, but the real message may be GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. That, at least, is what many tourists are beginning to suspect as they get the cold shoulder from communities. The locals are increasingly questioning the assumption that hordes of visitors automatically mean progress and prosperity-and they may be right...
...there, or getting no place in particular, without gas fumes or hassle or special training, is what canoeing is all about-and why it has become one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S. The output of canoes, which has doubled in the past four years, shows no sign of being dented by recession or inflation; overall growth of the sport is estimated at 20% per year...