Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairs, dubbed "a tragic farce," an aged couple who live in a sort of wave-washed fortress give a party for a horde of guests who are only so many chairs. After the old man (Eli Wallach) has delivered a "message" about the world, he and his wife throw themselves into the water. Swimming in symbolism, The Chairs readily enough suggests people's enisled fate in life's estranging sea, their efforts to flesh their daydreams, enforce their beliefs, communicate, be remembered. Providing playfully humorous touches and some remarkable stage effects, The Chairs is at times both engaging...
...image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw Wednesday night in his lap and let him kick it around") and a scourge of publicity beaters who manufactured a cheap exchange of insults ("This feud is all that's keeping you alive...
...after the tough. Oregon Quarterback Jack Crabtree looked like a pro as he fooled Ohio State ends and linebackers in running plays that piled up yardage. When he faded to pass, charging defensive linemen were suddenly choked off by the supposedly weak Oregon line. Given time to throw, he made a damaging discovery: the Buckeyes had a weak pass defense. In the second quarter, led by Crabtree's crafty signal-calling, Oregon tied the score...
...Protestant lobby. "We represent too many denominations [34] with too wide a range of interests to be a lobby even if we wanted to," says the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of the Episcopal Washington Cathedral. "What we are going to try to do is to throw into the discussion of national and world affairs down here what might be called the ethical dimension...
Brown scored only one more field goal than the Crimson (27 to 26), but the Bruins completed 85 percent of their free throw attempts (22 out of 26) while the varsity hit on only two-thirds of their tries...