Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word, the game was boring. In two words, it was really dull. In three words (with a contraction to boot), Yale couldn't skate. In three and over, the Crimson icemen faced a "must not lose" situation against the visiting Elis on Saturday afternoon and Channel 7. So they didn...
...thought so much of me," she told the crowd. "I'm so excited that I had forgotten that Jimmy was President. I didn't even care. The first time I came here, I walked so much it seemed like a thousand miles. But I give you my word, I was happier walking here then than I am now in the President's plane...
EMPTY. The word is printed on publicity posters and hung on bulletin boards. It advertises the current Loeb Ex production of Samuel Beckett's two plays Play and Come and Go. White and uncluttered, the poster seems to defy what an advertisement should be. It suggests nothing of the plot, and offers no commonplace images, not even a prominent name. Just "Empty" and small print. But the poster is appropriate. It informs, Even though his first play was produced 24 years ago, Samuel Beckett's works still seem jarring and bizarre. And no wonder. Although his works may be recognized...
...Come and Go, he includes three women, gossip, hypocrisy, but no drawing room, and no second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which...
...back when--call it 1975--Radcliffe prospectives needed not concern themselves with that section of their applications under the call word "Athletics." Play the violin, ace those SATs, live in Idaho--but be a jock...what are you, sexist...