Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sleepy listeners to WITT, a soft-spoken popular-music FM radio station in Tuscola, Ill., may have wondered whether some lunatic had just been named station manager. A news program came on at 6 a.m., as it does every morning-but it did not go away. At this moment, the news is still playing on WITT, and there is no indication when Glenn Miller and the top 40 will return...
...Basic's case against Doris to me. Both Glikes and Thomas were going on about how Doris's relationship with Basic and with Glikes had been unique, and Glikes was talking about how shocked he was at Doris's a postasy. And when I asked Glikes whether he had spoken to Kearns since the break, he sighed and--he must have been leaning back in his chair--said. "Well, I used to call her every night, just to ask her why she had done this, but Goodwin would always answer and hang up on me. But then, one morning...
...have never been spoken to like that in my entire life," says the pretty, pushy woman who has elbowed her way into the briskly cross-talking circle around egomaniac Matinee Idol Garry Essendine. "Well, make the most of it," he replies, throwing the line casually away over his shoulder, serenely confident that there are hundreds more where that one came from...
...includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense that there is more here than period grace, that this is a piece to be acted, not condescended to. Modern audiences are seldom spoken to as Coward spoke, and there is a great pleasure in making the most...
There were some extraordinary grace notes in the U.S. newspapers last week-remarks that might have been greeted as bathetic, fatuous or corny had they not been spoken in such moving circumstances...