Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course of the one-act play, five people converge on THE LINE, a six-inch strip of tape, and vie to be first. It doesn't matter why they have come. Fleming wants to buy baseball tickets. Arnall thinks he is going to see a movie. But only Steve, excellently played by Richard A. Green, knows that there isn't really a reason...
...some states, snowmobiles must be registered; park officials restrict other machines to specific trails. Such rudimentary rules are virtually unenforceable, and marauders on ATVs or snowmobiles occasionally strip hunters' shacks or loot vacation homes. Says Jack Butterfield, administrator of Michigan's state parks: "About all we ever find the next morning is the tracks. It's like a man on foot trying to catch somebody on horseback...
...York-based Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. made an application to the IRS for tax-exempt status. N.R.D.C. lawyers claim they were told that they would be granted the exemption for legal activities only if they cleared prospective lawsuits beforehand. N.R.D.C. says that one of its proposed suits, contesting strip-mining practices in Kentucky, has already been effectively vetoed...
...also remembers the details. First, Shaw hit a state police car stopped on the shoulder of the road, which careened him safely through the bridge. Then he hit a wooden post, knocking it 35 feet, before crossing the center strip and completing a spin...
...track rack-ups and sexual hang-ups, the film is crowded with subject-but barren of object. It is impossible to hide what never existed; nonetheless Director Sidney Furie seems to be attempting an existential comedy. Local color is dabbed in by the numbers. Maw (Lucille Benson) is comic-strip Steinbeck; Paw (Noah Beery Jr.) sells portable potties which he describes as p.p.s. Fauss is constantly taking ludicrous spills on his bike. Halsy is forever scratching himself, belching, boozing, caroming off lesbians-all the while covering past and future with a threadbare carpet of lies. Sometimes he talks like...