Word: texts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THEN there are the liberties Zawawi takes--and doesn't take--with the text. Although Williams intends the play to leave Catherine's sanity in question, he biases the audience's choice. In one scene Cathie complains that she lost yard privileges at the sanitarium because she refuses to eat fried grits. In the original play, that statement does not go unchallenged. "She lost yard privileges because she couldn't be trusted in the yard without constant supervision or even with it because she'd run to the fence and make signs to cars," nurse Sister Felicity says...
...conducting in the glare of the campaign. He is sunnily self-confident and accustomed to the leeway accorded good-looking, engaging men. At the G.O.P. convention, when Republicans were debating whether to dump him from the ticket, Quayle wanted to wing his acceptance speech without a text or TelePrompTer. "Good Senators," he explained, "don't speak from prepared texts." He was overruled...
...almost deprived of Mitterrand's tender musings. Though he agreed last spring to write about the cherished moment, he did the writerly thing and missed his deadline; 25,000 copies of the book were printed without his entry. At the last minute, Mitterrand came through with two pages of text, which were inserted into 50,000 additional copies. Love conquers all, even blown deadlines...
...abide by the results already known to the people," Fernandez said, reading from a text...
...access (a problem with all user-oriented computing at Harvard). HOLLIS is not presently accessible from campus networks (or is so far not documented as such). From a terminal in the Science Center, it is impossible for a student or faculty member to integrate catalog information into a text file or a mail message. In the last year, I received in my computer mailbox cataloging information from a librarian at the library of the University of Toronto; but I suspect it will be a long time before I can send a computer mail message to a librarian at Widener...