Word: switches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edna is not a well-developed character; she often serves as a sounding board for Mel. Nevertheless, McPhee maintains a reasoned voice. Not surprisingly, when Edna finds a job after Mel has lost his, she also assumes his original neurotic qualities. Act Two's opening marvelously reveals this switch as Simon contrasts Mel's aimless wandering with Edna's verbal rambling. They also tend to philosophize; in the course of the play they wonder anxiously about their existence. To Edna's assertion that you either live with life's problems or get out, Mel replies that human beings have...
...noisy bash of the jazz age, the writers deplore the decline of "manners, conversation, hospitality, sympathy, family life, romantic love." While Yankee highbrows like E.E. Cummings and Edmund Wilson were discovering the seven lively arts, the Agrarians were frowning on movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their Atwater Kent radios, take down that country fiddle from the wall and scrape out an Elizabethan air. Their best poet, John Crowe Ransom, magically evoked a land where larks' tongues are never stilled, "sunlight lies like pale spread straw" and ladies of "beauty and high degree" arrange jasmine...
...homes, with the remainder warmed by solar power, wood and propane gas. Last year 365,000 homes were converted to gas, mostly in the patch of Northern states stretching from Maine to Michigan, where oil usage is heavy; this year almost 400,000 homes are expected to switch. As much as 95% of the changeovers are conversions from...
...deciding whether to switch from oil to gas, owners must place the potential saving against the cost of conversion, which can be substantial. The cheapest way to change over certain types of oil furnaces or boilers in good working condition is to pay $800 for the instal lation of a gas burner. But often conversion means spending $1,200 for a new gas furnace or $1,900 for a gas boiler. Moreover, customers whose houses are far from streetside mains have to pay to have a gas line installed...
Lansbury recalls, "Once early in the season when Rich was yelling at two of our guys to switch positions, the ball sailed past him into the net, but he didn't let that happen again...