Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children become adults in spite of the holocaust, and Emily's development becomes the main focus of the novel. The narrator can only watch helplessly as Emily readies herself to take her place in the world outside, where the struggle to survive has become steadily more intense. Finally she becomes "the woman" of the leader of one of the packs of adolescents who room the city looking for food, and begins to explore areas she has previously avoided--friendship, love and responsibility for other human beings...
Only a few short months ago, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Cairns, 60, was a man to watch in Australian politics. A onetime detective and university lecturer, he was running the government in the absence overseas of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam when a cyclone devastated the city of Darwin last December (TIME, Jan. 6). Cairns supervised the massive relief effort for the stricken areas so well that he was talked about as a possible replacement for Whitlam, who at the time was experiencing one of the popularity lows that have periodically marked his career...
...Chris Evert, Wimbledon was more like Waterloo. First she was upset in the semifinals by Billie Jean King. Then ex-Boy Friend Jimmy Connors brought Actress Susan George on his arm to watch his own upset in the men's singles (see SPORT). Said Chris: "He is no longer my fiancé, and all thoughts about marriage have been shelved." All of which helped Billie Jean look like the coolest competitor around. She acquired a striking outfit that she threatened to wear (but did not) to the Wimbledon ball: Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp costume. Then, having proclaimed...
...difficult job; by the end of the play, all the male characters are pledging her their undying devotion, she plays the part with the languid voice of Joan Greenwood and the elegant mannerisms of Maggie Smith, but it's only during her solos--particularly the hauntingly beautiful "Someone To Watch Over Mc"--that her character develops the necessary magnetic appeal. Both Witham and McCarthy have excellent voices, and their duets are some of the high points of the show...
...three wooden pipes. When an 11-year-old Joe Crowell appears to deliver the morning newspapers, we spot another fellow crouching to create a swish-plop on the stage floor with a wire brush and a soft beater, while Joe mimes the act of delivery. And, again, we watch someone make the sound of rattling bottles and clomping hooves although Howie Newsome's horse and milk-carrier are invisible...