Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glen Campbell is waiting for to have it made-"If I can just make a 40-year-old housewife put down her dish towel and say 'OH!' "-he has it made. I'll drop anything, including my 2½-year-old daughter to watch...
...side of the angels." That concern was reflected in his joy at receiving a letter from the Chicago Historical Society, asking him to preserve his correspondence and memorabilia for its archives. And it was underscored by his chagrin last August when he ventured out of the mansion to watch the rioting during the Democratic National Convention and got rapped across the butt by a cop who failed to recognize one of the town's biggest taxpayers. As part of his change of life, Hefner wants to be recognized and loved...
...seems impossible that stupid dumb precipitation, which doesn't know Anybody, has no connections, has never worked its way up, could come between it and the City, the Life, the Important Things. But you, New England, you somehow recognize the face of the weather, and sadly, or eagerly watch to see what new wonder it will write...
...reach one another. These costumes add up to one thing: a pitiful attempt to be noticed in this competitive community of ours. To be witnessed, but not to be vulnerable. To be seen and not touched. It is an expression of vanity so transparent that it is embarrassing to watch. A thousand barriers protect these egos from one another...
They are merely dragged along through a universe in which time seems to have stopped and logic is dead. A flipped coin comes up heads 85 times in a row. The landscape seems blank and irrelevant to life. Meanwhile, they must watch all of Shakespeare's characters as they walk in and out, moaning and pontificating on subjects that escape them. As Rosencrantz cries in the last act, "Incidents! All we get is incidents! Dear God, is it too much to expect a little sustained action...