Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having made visible inroads on Broadway, British exports are now annexing off-Broadway and the U.S. regional theater. In the past three weeks, Top Girls and Skirmishes opened off-Broadway and Quartermaine's Terms at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Interestingly enough, counting Nell Dunn's Steaming, already running at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater, three out of four new British entries are by women, possibly because Britain's feminist consciousness is just now peaking. Top Girls displays some postfeminist tristesse; only Steaming seems earnest in its feminist polemics, ironically garnished with...
Following a tip from an informant, law-enforcement officials in the small Massachusetts port town of Fairhaven tailed a tractor-trailer to Mullen's wharf earlier this month. As they watched, a 71-ft. fishing boat called Tiki X unloaded its cargo: 30 tons of pot. By dawn's light, police had arrested 26 men; all were later charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to violate state narcotics laws. The next morning, about 400 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds...
...around the year 1851, a Cincinnati wharf hand painted black crosses on boxes of Procter & Gamble candles so that illiterate workers could distinguish them. In time the cross became a star. Then a dozen more stars were added to signify the original 13 colonies, as well as a quarter moon with a human face, a popular image of the time. By 1882 the unusual logo had become Procter & Gamble's trademark...
Unfortunately, such a situation could not last. Boston Wharf, the owners of the area, realised they had a large piece of land almost in the center of the city, and they plan to develop the area. "If this area is built up and rents rine, the art community will disappear," warns Huey, adding "Boston is a cultural city and it should preserve its cultural resources...
There's really not a whole lot that makes sense in Cannery Row. For one thing, no one seems to do any work. And there are some rich people in town, but there's nowhere for them to live. And there's a guy who plays trumpet on the wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like...