Word: wile
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...saved from mediocrity. The actors play slapstick so well that the production's one weak moment is an off-spring of their own success. In the last act, Barabas gets caught in his own plot and sinks to a painful death in a "deep pit past recovery." His wile has betrayed him, and his snarling vengeance ("Damn'd Christians, dogs, and Turkish Infidels,") echoes across the stage. Having avoided the serious side of Barabas' treachery until the end, however, Gitter's curse suffers from its incongruity. The audience, which previously jumped at every funny line in the play, seems perplexed...
...ready for business-often with a derby on her head, a strong cigar between her teeth, an infant at her breast. While her five or six older chil dren scurry underfoot and her common-law husband of the moment snores the day away, she haggles and harangues, using every wile to turn a profit. She rigs prices, forms miniature cartels, organizes rock-solid unions that defy municipal authorities...
...ANTONIO CARRILLO FLORES. When Diego Rivera painted the beautiful wile of Mexico's ambassador, he left her feet bare to emphasize her ' peasant origins." Her parties, attended by the Lyndon Johnsons, Cabinet-level officials and State Department specialists, display a kind of native vitality-featuring mariachi musicians from Mexico City, a table laid with tortillas, black beans and tangy beef, evenings of guitar playing. Carrillo Flores, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian whose father was the 19th child of illiterate parents, made $100,000 a year as a lawyer-and economist, took something like...
...Crimson, coming after a 39-6 loss the the year before. It was the third win over the Elis in four years and the title, shared with Columbia, was the first since 1919. The famed Harvard line, led by seniors Pete Hart, Bob Boyda, Bill Swinford, and Darwin Wile, held Yale to a meager 91 yards rushing...
...days Commonwealth leaders battled Britain's government with every wile and weapon. But for all their threats that Britain's admission to the European Common Market will irrevocably weaken - if not destroy - the 15-nation partnership, the Commonwealth Prime Ministers wound up their conference in London last week by conceding that "the final decision would rest with the British government." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced jubilantly: "I am very pleased. Everything is fine...