Word: whey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play's deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
...borrowing to buy everything from color TV sets to new factories. With the Federal Reserve Board keeping credit tight to restrain the economy, there isn't enough money to go around. One result is the most frenzied scramble for savings accounts in years. Nobody is really certain whey the public is saving less, but economists have lots of theories. Hedge Buying against inflation has sopped up some money. So have the rising cost of living, higher social security and local taxes, and the speed-up in federal income-tax collections. More important, in a basic shift in personal habits...
...beside the River of Perfumes, the Imperial City of Hué in central Viet Nam seems to have no purpose beyond its past. Once, a century ago, the Nguyen princes ruled nearly all of Viet Nam from their proud palaces with their gardens and lagoons in Hué (pronounced whey). Today their palaces are crumbling, and Hué is a subdued and ceremonial city of 105,000 without a newspaper, scarcely a telephone, and little traffic beyond bicycles and canvas-topped cyclo taxis. The only industry is a lime plant employing 50 people. Lunch is a leisurely three-hour affair...
...novel, a core sampling from that vein of irrational hostility that separates servants from masters, haves from havenots, Britain's John Fowles explored the miasmal psychology of an impotent, whey-faced nonentity named Clegg. A municipal clerk whose warped dreams brutally but clearly mock the aspirations of the newly affluent New People of the English working class, Clegg collects butterflies in his off-hours until he wins $200,000 in the football pool and can suddenly indulge his wildest fancies. He buys a remote country house, converts its vaulted cellar into a more or less gilded cage, and kidnaps...
...Whey the Board of Regents banned A Stranger Knocks is especially puzzling since they at the same time allow the glandular fudge of Times Square sexfilms and explicit nudity, nymphomania, and autoeroticism in art films like The Silence. If there must be frankness of sex, it is the kind in A Stranger Knocks that should be encouraged...