Word: volleyers
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...this game of verbal lawn tennis, the two bogus brothers are matched with two demurely saucy maidens. As Cecily Car dew and Gwendolen Fairfax, Kathleen Widdoes and Patricia Conolly lob and volley Wilde's lines with devastating precision. The Fourth of July will be a little early this year. Over Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, comic flares light the night...
Penn should be the least tough opponent, but the Yale match hits Harvard Monday like the third volley in a blast of machine-gun fire. The Elis have also lost twice, to Princeton and--ye--Columbia, but they are strong. Number one Cary Leeds is a potential all-American, and the team has improved so much that last year's number two player has slipped to the six the position...
...Cyrus Vance's mission to Moscow seemed to herald a critical break in Soviet-American relations-an end to SALT, perhaps, if not an end to detente. The Soviets had rebuffed as unacceptable new strategic arms proposals offered by the Carter Administration. In addition, there was a continuing volley of and-American rhetoric in the Soviet press and the angry diatribe by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (TIME, April...
With that, the warden made a slight motion with his left hand, and a rifle volley shattered the silence. "Bang! Bang! Bang! Three noises," Witness Schiller reported later. Actually, four bullets tore into Gilmore's heart, twisting his body, which then turned limp. Blood slowly poured out, staining the bullet-pocked chair. Two minutes later, at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 17, Gary Gilmore was declared dead. He was the first prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since 1967. After a series of unsuccessful appeals that lasted until the very morning of the execution, what the warden called...
...Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. A month later, a very nervous Swanhilda waited in the wings at City Center in Manhattan as the curtain rose on A.B.T.'s opening-night Coppélia. Scarcely had her satin shoes flashed into view, when the first volley of bravos rolled through the theater. The orchestra played on for several bars, then stopped. Gregory, misty-eyed, curtsied for more than two minutes before the show could proceed. In the dance world such a demonstration is rare...