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...Daddy does come back; the thunderstorm has been curtailed; Gooper reinstates his witticism about Big Mama's double chin; and Brick ends the play, as he originally did, by being more ambiguous and less conclusive. The text can now, I think, in its fourth version be considered final. If there seems to be, generally, too much repetition of words and phrases, that's just the result of (my) personal taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams's 'Cat' Revised and Revived | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

...guests-the aristocracy of Europe and a few lords from the colonies. It was a state affair, too sublime for common folk. Only nobles whose coats of arms bore many quarterings were permitted inside Versailles's marble walls and mirrored hallways. All went smoothly until a thunderstorm rained out a postnuptial display of fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Franco-American Follies | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...change in weather has come with the suddeness of a thunderstorm, whipping thick gusts of rain into the trees. The leaves that seemed to stay up there forever are finally beginning to fall...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Walking Across the Water | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

This quiet light wouldn't expose everything, only scattered pieces of the world, and glitter for a moment. It made the world seem broken, and smaller; as if dispresed from a thunderstorm, and shattered and bedraggled...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

That was last month. Now things are returning to normal, with the girls once more patrolling the streets. Still, the midsummer thunderstorm about the world's oldest profession raises anew one of the world's oldest questions: What can or should society do about the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: REFLECTIONS ON THE SAD PROFESSION | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

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