Word: thor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written years before Home, The Changing Room and The Contractor, In Celebration is Storey's most personal play. The first three are exactly ob served, but in them Storey distances au thor and subject with fastidious detachment. In Celebration seems to have been axed out of the playwright's heart. While writing this work, Storey must some times have seen blood...
...trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem of Thor Bridge). But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with such grave worldly consequences as The Case of the Strange Erasures...
...honed to a cutting edge. Like any clever wom an, she is less revealing than she pre tends to be. Most of the lovers are not named (a U.S. Senator, a White House aide), while most of the named are not lovers; not until page 241 does the au thor break the suspense by conceding "an absence of carnal knowledge be tween me and Henry [Kissinger...
...begin in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist who went along on Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra expeditions...
Jackson was finally rearrested three weeks ago after he had spent a part of his bogus fortune. "Actually, the bills he turned out were pretty good," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thor Anderson in appreciation of the artistry. "The major failure was that the paper he had to work with just wasn't suited for a really good counterfeit...