Word: tilling
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...after hasty discussion, the superpowers and their major allies tender their unconditional capitulations, and Bok relieved, checks his watch. "Wouldn't it have been a pity." he say to Watt "it is hadn't worked and we'd had to wait till...
...Girls. In the first, five women till the harsh swampland of Norfolk; in the second, a Thatcheresque career woman chats with her peers from throughout history. In both, British Feminist Caryl Churchill displays acerbic ironies and dazzling technique...
...only serious new American play (Brothers) closed on opening night. Worse, for the main stem's economic and emotional health, there have been no successful romantic comedies in more than a year. It says something dour about Broadway, its playwrights and its audience that the last laugh-till-you-cry hit was Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein's savvy sudser about a not-so-gay drag queen. You may begin to wonder if there are any heterosexuals out there who both feel deeply and write funny...
...scene. Now he is the bestselling author of a volume of tittle-tattle diaries, the director of a lugubrious new musical about Actress Jean Seberg, and the star of a brouhaha that boasts enough celebrities, sex, money, backstabbing and even cultural significance to fill every London tabloid from now till Boxing Day. Screaming headlines leap to the imagination...
Sooner or later there comes to every writer the two-thousand, three-thousand, five-thousand word lashing that doesn't just sting for the regulation seventy-two hours but rankles all his life. Zuckerman now had his: to reassure in his quotable storehouse till he died, the unkindest review of all, embedded indelibly (and just about as useful) as "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Annabel Lee," the first two poems he'd had to memorize for a high-school English class...