Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theater category, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classics Club for the production of Sophocles' "Ajax" was given money as well as Rebecca L. Crandall '87 for her staging of excerpts from Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...
...Kennedy Center in Washington; and the U.S. premiere of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a work of protest written in 1937 in Nazi Germany. Currently playing are Gillette, a comic adventure set in a Wyoming boomtown, and a modern version of the Greek tragedy Ajax, directed by Peter Sellars and imported from Sellars' now defunct American National Theater in Washington...
Embattled Boston Mayor Kevin White is indicted on 37 counts of bribery and misuse of public funds. Blaming Bulgarian operatives for "smearing me," the four-terns Hub leader takes to the airwaves to clear his name. In one commercial, White is shown purchasing 200 cans of Ajax, "just to show I'm still Mr. Clean...
Although bottle bills were voted down in four Western states, it should be noted that the repeal of the Massachusetts law was rejected by the voters. Bottle legislation has never been repealed. Once enacted, it becomes more popular as people see how effective it is. Ajax Eastman, Chairman Citizens Against Waste Baltimore
ORLANDO BELONGS--with Ajax and Avalon--to a curious breed of proper nouns whose senses have passed over the centuries from the epic to the cheap and commercial. Once the name was instantly recognizable as the hero of Ariosto's 16th-century narrative poem; now it conjures up the strains of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon "Round the Old Oak Tree" and the sun-soaked giant mice of Disneyworld, Florida...