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...original play on hand, but if that isn't lifted straight out of Coward, I'll eat Larita's cloche. (Not until after I've worn it a bit though. Charlotte Walters' costumes are perfection.) I suspect this is also the case with almost every line uttered by Furber the butler, played by the droll and dry Kris Marshall...
...fear that caused Tom Furber to found HomeRuns.com an online grocery-delivery business, in 1996. "I was very concerned that somebody else not in the grocery-retailing space was going to beat us to it," says Furber, vice president for Hannaford Bros., the Scarborough, Maine, supermarket chain that saw $3.3 billion in revenues in 1998, and has since been acquired by Food Lion. "In hindsight, we could have gotten into this later...
Book and Lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber...
...Jethro Furber, the outrageously vivid villain of this orgiastically original first novel, William Gass presents a hilarious portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. In Brackett Omensetter, the "wide and happy" hero of the book, he offers an archetypal antithesis: "Like the clouds, he was natural and beautiful, like a piece of weather in the room. Life eased from him like a smooth broad crayon line. He knew the secret...
Hero meets villain in the small Mid-western town where Furber holds forth as the local yack-in-the-pulpit. "Both of Omensetter's hands reached for his hand, enclosing it like a worm in a fruit." Obsessed with envy, Furber spreads lies about Omensetter and even tries to persuade the townspeople that he has committed murder. In the end the reverend repents his persecution, but too late to preserve his reason, which drowns in a loud orange effluvium of emotion...