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...named Spooner (John Gielgud). He has brought Spooner home to a sumptuous drawing room, designed by John Bury. There, Spooner holds forth on art and life and sundry other topics very much in the non-sequiturish fashion of the theater of the absurd. Hirst chugalugs drink after drink till he crawls off to bed on his hands and knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gamesmanship Galore | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Thursday, November 25: I know Beverly High is playing Salem, but don't you get out of that bed till at least 12:00. That way you miss out on all those picky Thanksgiving chores, like running to the corner store for nutmeg...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Thanksgridding Guide | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

...with the annual Detroit Lions "Watch us play over our heads on national television and blow darts the rest of the season" Thanksgiving game. This year's battle is against the Buffalo Bills and if the game is as boring as the two teams involved, wait till the second quarter to get the nutmeg...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Thanksgridding Guide | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

...onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward of it, rocking easily and triumphantly." Riddle's most famous nautical scene involves a desperate 13-mile trip in a dinghy through solid fog and tricky waters, with Carruthers rowing like a metronome on command and Davies guiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Soundings | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Speaking for the legislature's Committee on Taxation, Jerry Delaney '68 refuted the charge that the grad tax would fall short in revenues. The committee's calculations were based on modest estimates of growth till 1977, when the bill would have gone into effect. They showed the revenue gap to be at most $10-15 million on a revenue base of more that $1.2 billion, a gap of about one per cent. The opponents of the grad tax went back to the 1974 figures on state income to come up with the $150 million shortfall. "This is ridiculous, there...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Taxophobia: The Poor Uphold a Rich Man's Tax | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

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