Word: tapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft doesn't bother him. "I've got a good chance of being 4-F. That is unless some major wants to get up every morning and tape my ankle. So I've got a fighting chance to stay out of the fighting," he said...
...before exhuming their daughter's body. Dinis maintains that the suspicion already exists, raised by the delay before the death was reported and the apparent contradictions in Kennedy's public accounting of the episode. To underscore discrepancies regarding the exact time of the accident, Dinis played a tape recording of Kennedy's televised explanation of the event. Kennedy himself was in Europe last week for a meeting of the North Atlantic Assembly. Dinis summoned none of the others present at the Chappaquiddick party...
...mentor, James Joyce, once said: "Here is life without God. Just look at it!" In a way, Beckett's entire work is an agonized sermon on that text. In his world, the machinery of existence seems to be grinding to a halt. The titles Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame and Malone Dies suggest a civilization with terminal cancer. The suffocating womb becomes a death trap: the urns encasing the characters in Play, the mound of earth piled up to the heroine's neck in Happy Days, the ashcans of Endgame. One critic has called a Beckett hero...
Spellbound Senators. He proposed a better way. Each state should merely pay each billboard company to take down its signs as leases expire. In one blow, red tape would be minimized...
...promises of maudlin disaster. The movie fulfills them. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is what used to be called, back in the dim and distant fifties, a kook. She does swell things like move in with her straight-arrow boy friend (Wendell Burton) while he is studying for his finals, puts tape across her mouth-'cause she's promised not to talk to him-and communicates with him by holding up signs. College is some bucolic wonderland where it is always fall, even in the depths of winter, and the students think that S.D.S. is some new kind...