Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does one write a successful soap opera? Characterization is the key to a soap's success. When William Bell first thought of The Young and the Restless in 1973, he had in mind only the poor Foster family supported by a wrung-out mom, and the quartet of well-to-do, glamorous Brooks sisters, mired in sibling rivalry. "I look for things that touch people's lives," he explains. "I'm disappointed if my shows don't produce tears from the audience three times a week." Agnes Nixon defines the difference between daytime and prime-time drama as "the suffering...
Preserved by Ice. These included gold. The Scythians were rich. They wrung tribute from every caravan that crossed the steppes, and they carried their gold not as raw bullion but as flamboyant ornament. Other materials went to dust?except for some ornaments of wood or cloth, such as the elegant swan made of felt stuffed with reindeer hair (see color opposite) that was discovered, preserved by ice for almost 2½ millennia, in a tomb in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Yet the gold survived. Almost all the major examples of Scythian gold have remained in the U.S.S.R...
Apparently she was recruited to lend a little weight to a mean, shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees...
...same time, Ford wrung a promise from Democratic leaders to try to persuade rank-and-file congressional Democrats to separate a controversial provision repealing the oil depletion allowance from a $21.3 billion tax-reduction bill intended to stimulate the economy and help bring the recession to an end. Liberal Democrats in the House had insisted on tying the two measures together, even though their leaders had warned that the debate over depletion repeal might delay swift passage...
...simply bellow out her lines. And Yum-Yum (Deborah Shaw) was clearly inadequate in places--she sang sweetly, but without sufficient strength. Most of the others were better suited to their roles--Ko-Ko (Dennis Crowley), Lord High Executioner, was the most enjoyable portrayal of the production; Crowley wrung the most drama out of his role, remembering that Gilbert's words are as important as Sullivan's music and usually funnier. Crowley has the best Gilbert and Sullivan voice in the cast, a compound of condescension and donnish befuddlement, and it's unfortunate he didn't have the chance...