Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very nervous, but also excited," said Actress Mia Farrow on the point of making her British stage debut in J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose with a repertory troupe in Manchester. Mia's two-year-old twin boys will be staying with her, but if Husband Andre Previn wants to see the play, he will have to sneak into the theater. "I have a horror of anyone I admire watching me act," says Mia. "I have made him promise not to let me know when he comes." Does this presage more footlights in her future? Well...
Above all else, it is necessary to understand the twin facts that Orwell did not wish to be a political man and that, once having become one, he could not go back. Whenever he could, he withdrew physically from the world of politics and sought refuge in out of the way places: Hertfordshire, Morocco, the Hebrides. But during these retreats, he followed the events of the world almost obsessively and wrote his interpretations of them in essays and letters to his friends. The characteristic note of these essays is a desperate desire, not to analyze what is happening...
...Pavlo was his first play. (His second work, Sticks and Bones, develops related themes of the war's moral crippling in more dimensions.) Pavlo opened off-Broadway last year. It is now in a new production by the Theater Company of Boston, with Al Pacino as Pavlo. The twin trajectories of Rabe's fresh talent and Pacino's intersect with concussive impact, splattering the audience with agony and unexpected humor...
When a flight of four Phantoms lands on the twin 10,000-ft. runways, the planes quickly taxi to rows of protective concrete revetments. Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take...
Today Harvard faces a tough Princeton team in a twin-bill, starting at one p.m. Mike O'Malley and sandy Weissent, both 2-0, will be the starters. Princeton has won three in a row over Harvard in the last two years, and again is considered one of the major stumbling blocks in the way of and Eastern League crown...