Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color, only to belatedly discover that it "just wouldn't work." How about changing the locale to Hollywood, with the conflict between an actress and her understudy? "No," said New York City Opera Director Julius Rudel. Hmm. Why not just keep it straight Strindberg...
...conscientious American family is left with any time for literature, it tends to read in winter what used to be regarded as summer fare. The holiday reading list increasingly represents an escape not from serious literature but toward it; vacations loom as the annual oasis where people can soak up the topical or timeless, talked-about or dreamed-about books...
Patriotic Puff. Tobacco monopolies often become involved in politics and social-welfare plans. Austria helps to support its war victims by granting them licenses to sell state-made tobacco products. Communist governments value their tobacco trusts as both a prime source of income and a useful sponge to soak up cash that the restless people cannot otherwise spend because of the shortages of consumer goods. Red Bulgaria counts upon its golden leaf for 10% of its export income...
...took his golden trumpet-blew-and the Wall didn't come tumbling down. Never mind. It was a mighty blast anyway. Cheering throngs of East Berliners, from the youthful hip to the Party drip, shelled out a capitalistic 15 to 25 marks ($3.75 to $6.25) apiece just to soak up all that jazz. Playing to packed houses on his four-week trip behind the Iron Curtain, Satchmo neatly muted the inevitable questions on race and politics ("Some of my best friends are Southern whites," he grinned) and gave the Volk encores and encores of Blueberry Hill and Hello, Dolly...
...teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...