Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens without hating it. To Carlo, who for the last seven years had managed to slip into the corner drug store every Sunday while his parents thought he was at Mass, anyone who liked Catholic school qualified as a certifiable madman. Even worse, the kid liked baseball and drank beer like a walking keg and though St. Paul's was a cathedral somewhere. No pretensions...
...American Way of Life with its energy use is like a canoe approaching Niagara Falls. Unfortunately we are all in this boat together, and we have just been thrown the last rope. Are we now going to sit and watch our politicians let it slip away, because they can't decide whether or not it might bruise their fingers if they grab...
...depth of the director's and the actors' understanding becomes particularly impressive in the second act, as the prisoners begin to disclose their private feelings about prison life. Queenie lets it slip that he once tried to go straight, but that society wouldn't have him back--and this explains why he so jestingly accepts his life shuttling between street-hustle and prison stints. Rocky reveals that his parents are dope-pushers and bootleggers, but says he's not asking for sympathy. And in the play's most poignant monologue, Mona pathetically tells the story of how the street gang...
...production this strong, of course adds to the play's depressing impact, for a subject this unsettling at times begs for a technical slip-up to relieve the tension. Here the gay jokes supply the only possible relief: you can either laugh at them or scoff at them, deciding that they undermine the play's deeper solemnity. But Herbert still means above all to lay bare the barbarous code that prisoners live under--and what it means for men of sensibility to succumb, or not to succumb, to that code. And if you let it, this production brings home that...
...Blooper. Lawyers say that defendant-attorneys typically get too close to their cases and blunder by letting slip information that leads to trouble. Trying to shake an eyewitness's identification of him, one Chicago robbery defendant posed a disastrous question: "How can you be sure? Isn't it true that when I robbed your store I was wearing a ski mask...