Word: smileyness
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...historic action is.) Le Carré heightens suspense by lowering the number of suspect moles to two. The remorseless world of international espionage is thus transformed into something very like a traditional English detective story with the suspects figuratively locked in the English country house as the sleuth (Smiley) pokes around and the tantalized spectators wonder if he will dare pin it on the butler...
...settings, fashioned by Douglas Schmidt, and skilfully lit by Marc Weiss, are decidedly modern or futuristic. And electronic incidental music and odd sound effects have been devised by Pril Smiley. One might surmise that the result would be a mishmash. But the idea of putting 11th-century people dressed in 17th-century garb in 20th-century environments is perfectly viable. One of the play's major themes is the wrenching of things out of their accustomed habitats, the appearance of people in "borrowed robes," the distortion of time. And the text is full of references to strange sounds ("every noise...
...Crooks. (To Ted Alevizos return all your books.) Happy birthday dear friend Arnold Q Arboretum. Good luck to the school-super. Alflorence Cheatham Doeting and Dolphin, let all Grignards rest Spare your students from fructocide on the next text. Now Bowersock. Whitlock, Kagan, Kiely. Keep all your committee meetings smiley. John Bethel and Bulletin Staff, make Good News Try to trump up some vict're for dear Perla Hewes. Drink up, Levines, there's truth in wine. Hey, Master Peretz, you're doing fine. McGovern. Shriver, drown your woes. We all know that's the way it goes. Dick...
...slip and fall. Everything is steel, so a fall can really do damage. Whatever you do, you get filthy. Your hands, your face, your shoes, trousers and shirt become smeared with grease, rust and mud chemicals. I never knew 14 days could take so long." Smiley Dunaway, 55, from Columbia, Miss., who has worked as a roustabout for 20 years, put two boys through college on his earnings. "But it cost me two-thirds of my life on the gulf to do it," he says wistfully...
...Moody, Jim Eanes, Gordon Terry. Stringbean and Chubby Wise. Shortly after Bill Monroe's music began to be heard other musicians saw the possibilities the music had and borrowed from it. The Stanley Brothers were the first group to do this, followed by Flatt and Scruggs and Reno and Smiley. Soon there were countless bands, both professional and amateur, playing music drawing from that created by Bill Monroe. Gradually the music became known as Blue Grass music, after Monroe's band name. In the South and Midwest today, there are few villages and towns without an amateur Blue Grass band...