Word: except
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that subject, and we don't hear anything. We just sit there screaming Right on. Damn few people are willing to take the risk of doing a funny, funky show on that subject. It's disarming and glib; those are not good qualities for a writer to trade on except when absolutely necessary. I don't know, maybe it's just wish-ful-fillment on my part. Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time...
Shear said that-except for the four striking stations in Belmont, Newtonville, Newton Center, and Auburnville-the only effect the strike will have is on mail destined for metropolitan New York. This mail, he said, will be held until the strike is over...
...passed, the bill will provide that no inhabitant of Massachusetts be required to serve in overseas hostilities except in emergency or under a Congressional declaration...
...screaming in her crib. Actually she is Carolyn Y. Cardwell, from Robert Downey's Putney Swope, and probably is no more than five and a half feet tall. Bobby wants to eat her and Jebbie does not. The baby then screams, "Rats! rats! rats!" and the lights black out (except the cue was missed on Thursday). Jebbie is left weeping and asking "Why?" If the rats are simply anthropomorphic rats, I feel sorry for the baby. If they represent the rich businessmen and hookers who are all killing Harlem, then I feel sorry for the play because it never capitalized...
...most eloquent passages in the Old Testament relates God's thunderous answer to the complaints of Job, who felt that as a morally upright man he had been unjustly afflicted with suffering and humiliation. Today, except for a few near-perfect lines, the King James Version of this passage (Job, 38-41) seems ponderous, and much of it obscure as well. Not only does the New English Bible give both an awesome grandeur and a biting sarcasm to God's words, but it also corrects for the first time several phrases long misrendered from the original Hebrew...