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...what the protagonist in Ira Levin's new thriller, Deathtrap, decides to do and, not so coincidentally, it is what Ira Levin, a successful novelist (Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying-to-write-a-play theme, which sets up worlds-within-worlds and all that twaddle, and the who-can-double-cross-whom-faster theme, the new nadir of the mystery genre, where all guns are filled with blanks, corpses fall to be later resurrected and everyone...
Gibson said the present suit is a "lastditch effort" to postpone the tax, but he would not speculate on its chances for success...
Coattails. President Eisenhower's lastditch campaigning was credited with helping pull Ohio into the G.O.P. column, and he nearly turned the trick in New Jersey. Kennedy grabbed a few coattails. running behind Senator Paul Douglas and Gubernatorial Candidate Otto Kerner in Illinois, and in many other states trailed local Democratic front runners...
...even those who have never been known to say a kind word about any production or performance previously. Maybe it's the Christmas ghosts finally getting to us Scrooges. More likely, it is the fact that this group puts on shows with such style and spirit that only the lastditch Savoyards could fail to be enchanted...
...College shook likewise during 1806, for the "great Eliphalet," of the old school that "would sooner cut off his hand than lift it up for an Arminian professor," was in command of a lastditch stand against the Unitarians, with the Presidency and the Chair of Divinity, Harvard's two most important single posts, at stake. After what one Fellow termed "as much intrigue ... as was ever practiced in the Vatican," Pearson's forces lost both positions, and Eliphalet resigned to help the newly founded Andover Theological combat Harvard's errors...
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