Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attend Mass. More threateningly, he has sensed some of the sources of his parents' snarlingly bad relationship and is eager to discover more. The revelations come steadily but not patly. The frustrations of wife and life have made John irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking and the pursuit of "hotel-lobby whores." Trying to cast up a balance sheet of guilt, Timmy blames first one parent, then the other...
Sawdust Caesars. Both in Margate and in Brighton, where more than 1,000 kids joined another melee and 75 were arrested, irate magistrates handed out stiff jail sentences (up to six months for assault) and fines totaling some $6,000. Stormed a magistrate: "These long-haired, mentally unstable, petty little hoodlums-these sawdust Caesars-seem to find courage, like rats, by hunting only in packs...
...performance can be easily measured. About 20% of all trainees wash out in the first year, but even those who do not make A.T.&T.'s stiff grades are scooped up by other companies eager to hire men with some Bell seasoning...
...Carnegie men heated a solution of mouse DNA until its strands separated. Then they mixed it with agar that cooled to a stiff jelly, which immobilized the long strands and kept them from recombining. Next, the jelly was reduced to tiny granules, each charged with mouse...
These directors have actors of their own caliber to work with. Almost every voice meets the stiff test of Aeschylus' verse as translated by Richmond Lattimore. And not content with giving us the lush lines, they have given us memorable characters. No one who was in Sanders Theatre last night will ever forget Joan Tolentino's Clytemnestra. "A woman merely," she describes herself, yet she dominates the stage. She outfaces Agamemnon; she towers over Aegisthus (and the directors emphasize this by placing her a level above him on the stage as she snaps down the Argive elders...