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...Detroit was out because it was too close to Chicago and the climate was not to Kelly's liking; Pittsburgh was no good because, in his estimation, it was not culturally ready. Suddenly, there it was: Dallas-hot climate, lots of loose money floating around, an unquenchable cultural thirst. Perfect. How could he fail to strike a gusher in the land of the big oilwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: High Cs in Big D | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...professions named David Nation, who was occasionally a lawyer, doctor, journalist and innkeeper and chronically a failure, Carry went on the warpath. Commencing in the town of Medicine Lodge, Carry's hatchet proceeded to enforce the letter of the law wherever she found Hawkeyes slaking their thirst. It was her habit to spend the eve of battle walking around on her knees-a kinetic form of prayer-sometimes anointing herself with fireplace ashes. From these rituals, Carry apparently drew prodigious strength. While raiding the Senate Bar in Topeka on Feb. 5, 1901, she disarmed a pistol-toting bartender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady & the Hatchet | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Until Dunster's 3-1 win, Eliot and previously unbeaten Lowell appeared headed for another showdown on the last day of the season. Last year Lowell bumped off Eliot in the final playoff game, 1-0, and made the Elephants thirst for revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Booters Lead League | 11/2/1966 | See Source »

Oddly enough, Rock finds little happiness in Happenings, but he does develop a thirst. One drink leads to another, and the aftertaste leads him back to Scarsdale. Ultimately he learns that it takes more than a surgical retread to renew the inner man, which was perhaps obvious all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Identity Crisis | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Delicate Balance. A character in the new play with which Edward Albee opens the Broadway season is somewhat shocked to find himself drinking whisky before breakfast. Says another character reassuringly: "Think of it as very late at night." The lateness of the night, the thirst of the soul, the solitary anguish of the self-these have always been the prevailing mood winds of Albee's plays. But he cannot construct a credible plot in which to trap them, and he fails again in Balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Whisky Before Breakfast | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

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