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...told the United Nations that this country would have no objections. That was the first -- and last -- indication that the United States was ready to face up to the give and take of peacemaking. But after Gen. Ky and his cronies squawked loudly to Washington, Goldberg was made to swallow his words...
...generations, Englishmen have liked to down their bitter in the chatty, relaxed atmosphere of the local pub. That is where they swallow more than four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol...
...show consisting of filthy one-liners has to have a certain finesse. That, unfortunately, is what Deborah Waroff's production lacks. Funny bits often get lost in a shuffle onstage. Actors push less funny ones with the assiduity of your old grandmother--who forced you to swallow fifty of her worst cupcakes at one tea party. And Miss Waroff's blocking did nothing to vary the continual re-introduction of a familiar joke. In a scene between Myrrhine, who is upholding chastity regulations, and Kinesias, her husband, the lady breaks off caresses and runs away for little extras...
...oosphere. 10a) "Man of" is a far more likely, and grammatical, interpretation of what the Beatles sing than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background...
...there was more bitter medicine to swallow than devaluation. In order to back up devaluation with financial muscle, Britain not only had to go hat in hand to the International Monetary Fund (to which it already owes $1.4 billion) to ask for a fresh drawing of $1.4 billion, but also had to arrange a multinational loan of $1.6 billion from its partners, thus creating a new $3 billion support package in order to prevent the total collapse of the pound. To back up its action, the government raised the interest rate from 61% to 8% in order to attract foreign...