Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been our first American poet but is not a good one?" In a way, he says, "she chose me." "Your deep subjects, I'm talking about attempts at major poetry, not lyrics or meditative poems, they come and take hold of you... The point is to throw as much light as possible on her, and apparently at some point the decision was made to throw light on the twentieth-century poet, and to let this be explored in a dialogue...
...shaped chair consists of five layers of paper coated with a thin layer of plastic, is only one-sixteenth of an inch thick and weighs an incredibly light 3 Ibs. The chair will support up to 500 Ibs. Designer Murdoch claims that it is almost impossible to break. The throw-away price...
...course, some go in for more aggressive sports like lacrosse, field hockey, and judo. Why do they do it? "The idea of being able to throw someone just appeals to me," says judo captain Julia Nowlin, a Ph.D. candidate in projective geometry. "Doing something with a ball seems kind of silly, but if you can throw somebody, it's not contrived; it's real...
Drawing-room comedy is not often performed at Harvard, and maybe that's an unfair label to throw at Wilde, who was certainly no drawing-room playwright. But The Importance of Being Earnest is a funny play, and whatever its present production lacks in cohesiveness, it makes up for in laughs...
...survived it: "He is convulsed. He goes purple. The vein in his forehead stands up three-eighths of an inch. And the hatred in his eyes!" He cuts up his victim "with a tongue you could shave with." He fires people left and right. Sometimes he even throws things. Sometimes people throw things back. Last December, when Merrick flew off the handle and fired Director Tony Page for not making cuts in Inadmissible Evidence, Actor Nicol Williamson threw a glass of beer and a sudsy right at Merrick's head and sent him staggering into a backstage trash barrel...