Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play begins, a ten-foot-tall puppet with a bilious, wart-covered face lumbers to the center of the stage and mumbles unintelligible words from an ugly rubber mouth while wielding a black plastic truncheon. "Kill the dirty Fascist!" shouts a group of men in turtleneck sweaters as they start to beat the puppet's swollen belly. Out from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping audience. "The Communists are coming...
Novice Wolfeans are better advised to start with Kings Full of Aces, published simultaneously with Baring-Gould's "biography." It brings together three of the better Wolfe books from among the 43 that have been published since 1933. In Too Many Cooks (1938), Wolfe is guest of honor at a meeting of top international chefs, one of whom, naturally, gets murdered. Wolfe manages to trap the culprit while discoursing on U.S. haute cuisine and recounting such favorite recipes as sauce printemps and shad roe mousse Pocohontas. Plot It Yourself (1959) offers a revealing satire of the publishing industry...
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...club had a start. Conditions at the North Andover headquarters were far from luxurious. Harvard polo players of the past practiced in the Old Boston armory, but an anti-polo faction favored trucks over ponies and paved it. Most of the club members were new to the game, so early practices this winter in the cramped and dust filled hall in Andover were pandemonium...
AFTER A MARGINALLY encouraging start, John Volpe seems headed for his first major blunder as Secretary of Transportation. Volpe announced this weekend that he would soon decide whether the government should continue its drive to build a supersonic transport (SST). In doing so, Volpe left broad hints that he is eager to send another $300 million of federal money down the SST drain...