Word: wile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pussycat with a paunch, a tiny yellow bird and, to be sure, the world's most "wascally wabbit" will invade MOMA for a four-month tribute to the Warner Bros. cartoon shop, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. But that's not all, folks. Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester J. Pussycat, Tweety Pie, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Merrie menagerie will be starring in nine sublimely lunatic hourlong cassettes--the Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection--issued next month by Warner Home Video. And this season CBS will air a special...
...triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
Pointing a gun at the owner's wile and threatening. "Open the register or I'll seat your brains all over the floor," a middle-aged man robbed a Harvard Square liquor store of about $200 Wednesday afternoon, the store's owner said yesterday...
...night, Mother. A young woman announces her intention to commit suicide; her mom uses every dithery wile to prevent her. Marsha Norman's Pulitzer prizewinner is equally entertaining and harrowing; in the only roles, Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak shine with love and anger...
Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than...