Word: vise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This show is a roller coaster of merriment, with hairpin turns of plot, zany swoops of emotion and a breakneck tempo. But for fanciers of substance in entertainment, soap bubbles would be solider. Kaufman and Hart twisted their comic vise on Hollywood at just the time the movie colony was panicking over emergent speech. Jolson had sung; could Shakespeare be far behind? In panic, Hollywood raided Broadway for its voices...
...that an individual can only choose between crippling dependency or terrifying isolation. It is a mea sure of Strindberg's enduring power as a dramatist that he can inflict upon his characters and upon us the abnormal tensions he felt himself. The night closes in like an unrelenting vise until only the nightmare remains...
...eyes rather a fierce, buccaneering air, and fear mingled with my worship. I did not dare to go into the shop, unless my father was with me. It was a paradise of glue and pitch, of files and a vise, and heads in the rough, with a smell that still comes gratefully back to me. "God bless me," as Mr. Borthrup Trumbull (in "Middlemarch") remarked of the ham, "what an aroma...
...Mary Vise, a librarian at Hilles, said yesterday that Harvard alumni cannot use Hilles, which is located at the Radcliffe Quad. Under the 1971 Harvard-Radcliffe merger agreement, Radcliffe students are considered part of Harvard, but Harvard students are not considered part of Radcliffe, Vise said...
During the protest, organized by the 60-member "Students in a Vise" strike support group, the undergraduates renewed earlier demands for a complete amnesty for the 11 Brown students arrested during a pro-strike action earlier this month. The nearly 60 library employees began their strike in late August...