Word: waverly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INEXPERIENCED acting and awkward staging account for the rough spots in the production. The English accents pronounced by some of the younger actors waver a bit indecisively before settling on region and dialect. Occasionally failing to pay attention to one another, the players time some of their remarks poorly. And though the audience surrounds the stage on only three sides with the bulk of the spectators in front of the stage, altogether too many of the characters' movements are directed to the back of the set, as if the play were being performed in the round. The actors often manage...
...Inexplicably, eleven hours after the ordeal began the two prisoners released one of the four marshals, later did the same for 14 of the 15 inmates holed up with them (one woman inmate was asked to stay). By Sunday morning both men were exhausted, and their attention began to waver, giving the remaining seven hostages a chance to escape. In a carefully devised scheme that had been prearranged by telephone with authorities outside, the lone woman hostage, Debra Collins, told the two men that she needed a sanitary napkin. Officials sent it in to her with...
...played in the courtroom. The quality was surprisingly poor, with much of the conversation between Nixon and Ehrlichman indistinguishable. Nixon was heard to remark: "In the '68 campaign the press was violently pro-Humphrey." After Haldeman entered, the hum began. It was a steady sound that did not waver in its medium-high pitch. But after 5½ minutes the hum suddenly became softer, and some sporadic clicks could be heard for 13 minutes...
...hard, but I have to defend myself against the old needs so damaging to my feminist self-respect. The security the old needs brought is known and safe; the integrity I have to piece together as a feminist is 'out there' and not so safe. I waver between these two pulls trying to root out the sensibility that shaped...
...expected it to be noble and above all, honest. Sure, rising prices bother me, but in Watergate we're talking about something far more important than pocketbook issues: the integrity of the Government. This is something that I hold very dear. I'm a flag waver...