Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presents, meanwhile, keep pouring in. Scores have been politely returned to the senders: the manufacturers offering kitchen equipment, the sentimentalists asking the bride to wear their ancient lace. Others have been politely accepted: a set of coasters, decorated with pebbles, from a New Jersey elementary school; a sheet and pillow cases hand-tatted by a 15-year-old Rochester girl; a cake plate lovingly decorated by an elderly woman in the Midwest. Luci has also reaped a harvest of gifts from two bridal showers-one in Waukegan, the other in Washington. At the latter, the bride-to-be received enough...
Patricia Peardon makes a beautiful Olivia, though she is not at ease with her lines; and the veils she and her retinue wear when Viola-Cesario first visits her ought to be far less transparent. Elizabeth Parrish needs to invest the part of Olivia's maid Maria with more vivacity. Fabian, her male counterpart, fails in the hands of Julian Miller to leave much of any impression...
...somewhat of a modern-day Mr. Bennet with his mixture of "quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice." Nothing escapes his easy wit -- the world, his critics, himself. There is a definite gleam in his eyes when he speaks of his bad reviews. "They were ferocious in Women's Wear Daily. It ended up by saying something like 'the question is why Mr. Alfred chose to produce this play. We don't know, but let us forgive and by all means forget...
Inside Only. Dr. Obwegeser's research in "the geography of the mouth" and his resulting new methods are not for the average youngster suffering from a "bad bite." He will still need conventional orthodontics and have to wear braces. Jawbone surgery is mainly for people who have stopped growing...
Every morning he wrote into it the orders of the day: where to go, whom to see, how to act, what to wear, eat, read, buy, say and even feel. "One should not have more corn growing than one can get in," he reminded himself. "I should live no more than I can record and leave nothing of myself hidden." A confessional impulse of such intensity was something new in English writing. "Boswell scanned the swarming variety in his own nature," says Pottle, "with the pleased detachment of a naturalist watching a sectioned anthill." But he also scanned life with...