Word: except
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...family. It is difficult to know where praise of Marigolds should begin or end, and how to contain it. Sada Thompson may already have stolen the Obie award. Her acerb slatternly mother, gobbling cigarettes and guzzling whisky, might simply have been a mutilating monster-except that every other word and gesture reveals the maimed woman inside. The daughter roles are charged with compassion by Levitt and Payton-Wright...
...deliciously campy revival of his play Hay Fever at the National in 1964. Coward has a horror of "faffing," which is the affected hemming and hesitating that shatters the rhythm of a line or a scene and blurs its point. "Maggie," proclaims Sir Noel, "never faffs." Except offstage. There she talks with nervous, thoroughbred gestures, twiddling with her red hair and smoking too much...
...anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides." He decides to go back to America, where he can at least fight on familiar territory. Once there, he plans to write a seven hundred page book, every single page of which will be empty, except for the phrase. "Kiss my blackass." The book, he says, will be autobiographical, reflecting a black man's struggle to live in white society...
...society may be viewed in rising taxes for "defense" spending, an inflationary economy which has actually lowered purchasing power and spread poverty in America during the past five years, and the horror of being drafted for and possibly killed in a war which benefits no one except the handful that govern this country...
Cambridge Bicycling Week opens officially on Saturday, with a parade beginning at 11 a. m. from Cambridge City Hall and winding its way, eventually, to the Common. Since Festival participants will be coming by all manner of transport except the automobile, the two events will naturally be coordinated. People can use the paints they bring to the Festival Plaza in the morning to paint their bicycles and then join the parade...