Word: wan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commons clock ticked toward starting time for the great debate, there were only two empty seats in the jammed, expectant chamber. The first was filled, with four minutes to spare, by Harold Macmillan, who sat down stiffly on the government's front bench, looking as chill and wan as his effigy at Madame Tussaud...
...comes the puzzle: King Henry himself. Richard Simons, who plays him, and Mr. Hamlin, both inexplicably leave the rails from the play's first line. "So shaken as we are, so wan with care," Simons growls in the manner of a jumpy but undeniably vigorous bullfrog, establishing a style that never leaves him. Not a word of the part inclines me to believe anything but that Henry is chiefly a moraliser, that saving his vision of Jerusalem his is unimaginative, that his health is bad, and that his principal outward characteristic is almost uncanny self-restraint. Simons displays none...
...takes the count after approximately two minutes and 35 seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
...Malaya's most ardent bird watchers is British-educated Dato Loke Wan Tho, 47, boss of more than 30 companies with large holdings in copra, rubber, tin, banking and real estate. Currently Loke has a particularly exciting flock under observation. As a public service, he volunteered four years ago to become unpaid chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd. To revive the rundown line, Loke ordered a fleet of Fokker F-27s to replace decrepit DC-3s and leased a BOAC Comet. This week, in cooperation with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai International, Malayan will begin...
Last week Choi's wife suddenly dropped the charges, agreed to accept their four children and a lump sum of $31,000 in alimony. Wan and unsmiling, the lovers emerged from prison. Kim hurried off to a hospital, complaining of "low blood pressure." Choi read an Orientally opaque statement saying the two would "now reconsider relations." In the meantime, because Korean stars are paid only $2,500 a film for their assembly-line endeavors, both are planning to sell their houses so that they can pay off Mrs. Choi...