Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skin Of Our Teeth, as Stephen Nightingale directs it at Lowell House, carries off Wilder's con game with only a few pratfalls. The play is a loosely conceived Everyman telling the never-ending story of Mr. George Antrobus (Stuart Beck), his wife (Mary Belle Felten-stein), and two kids (John Sansone and Jody Adams). Wilder places this New Jersey family in the Ice Age, the flood, and the end of World War II (which wasn't over in 1942), revelling in anachronism and exploded convention...
...when he took to the rails, experienced the instant calamity of a subway strike or missed an important conference because his airport bus got caught in traffic. For many Americans, getting there is no longer half the fun. It is instead a task that must be faced with gritted teeth and steely determination...
...bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Beneath my skin, my flesh begins to rot, and my bones stick oui like teeth...
...that moving target! Bust his nose! Rattle his teeth...
...also recalls envying candidates who could "manage a warming half-smile" for the audience when the panel moderator introduced them. He himself had practiced the smile at home, but "I completely spoiled the intended effect of a sort of reserved benevolence by breaking out in a disconcerting sea of teeth...