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...water and saturating our stock of bread with salt water. The bread being our only dependence gave to us on the whole rather a cheerless prospect. We this day arranged our allowance of food and water, and gave it out for the first time. It consisted in one cake of biscuit and a pint of water to each man, for the 24 hours...
...effect, Lichtenstein's show invites us to have the cake and eat it too-to see his work as part of a "heroic" historical continuum while deriding the cliches to which that continuum has been worn down. But this cannot divert the suspicion that, for all his manifest abilities as wit and designer, his art has become repetitious. -By Robert Hughes
...guns that timed the junior's fastball consistently in the high 80s and once or twice in the 90s. What impressed them most was that this is how Darling looked with a 14-run lead, not exactly pressure conditions. He blew down the Crimson like candles on a birthday cake, fanning eight, allowing just two singles until he lost his concentration in the seventh. "Easily the best we've seen," said Martelli...
Women, of course, cause the most gnawing and perplexing hungers. Yet the men scarcely begin the tales of wives and lovers when their stomachs start to rumble. The refrigerator, "our ice mother," is raided. Its contents-salads, chicken, turkey, salmon, pecan pie and chocolate cake-are devoured, though they are meant to feed the host's wife and friends...
...assumption that continually bogs down an otherwise delightful production, that if the audience isn't kept constantly amused by broad gestures and incessant slapstick, it will become bored and confused. It's an unfortunate approach to take: surely the Agassiz Theater crowd is capable of picking up the wedding-cake suggestion and content to listen to the overture undistracted. But from start to finish, this is a Patience for the impatient...