Word: tors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care to see his ranks depleted, and he authorized a strike. Before Chesser's men went back to work some 160,000 commuters had to find alternate ways to work, and the nation's three major auto companies were about to close some of their plants tor lack of raw materials...
...suggested that the Government buy Penn Central's right of way, repair the sadly deteriorated tracks and then let Penn Central trains -and perhaps others-use the tracks for a fee. Before the 90-day respite expires, Congress may well be moved to enact compulsory arbitration legislation tor all transportation industry disputes lest there be more eleventh-hour crises'. The Administration prepared such a bill last year but abandoned support for it after the Teamsters endorsed Nixon's candidacy for reelection...
Laurence Harvey, who once played the Manchurian candidate, appears here as a Moscow commissar, sporting the kind of heavy leather trench coat that suggests Slavic villainy the way a black stetson in a western signals evil. He takes special delight in tor turing Jews. After inflicting one especially impassioned beating, Harvey makes his way out of the traditionally dank subterranean cell as an awestruck underling inquires, "What now? Are you going back to the office...
...High Tor theatre is the rarest of birds, a community theatre which involves the community in which it is located. Most of the actors, actresses and staff come from the Fitchburg area, and bring considerable amounts of energy to their eight play summer season. This little outpost of theatre in a small town well removed from the city may not be of Broadway quality but these days neither is Broadway. The rebuilt barn which houses the playhouse imposes a number of restrictions on any production, but the feeling of theatre being done for some intangible reason, for something other than...
Feydeau's farces depend on so many devices, visual tricks, wordplays, multiple entrances and exits, that only a well-disciplined company can hope to make sense (or nonsense) of them. The High Tor Company does remarkably well at meeting the requirements of Feydeau. Jeffrey Peters as Bois-D'Enghien, the protagonist who loves too wisely and too much, carries himself like a sophisticated Groucho Marx. Rocco Piccolomini as the General is a fine old fashioned zany with a phony moustache and a phony accent to match, both of which contribute immeasurably to his persona, as he and the posturing poetaster...