Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice's contortionist Superintendent of Schools, especially, transform this group into a human array of deformity who physically mirror their own insides...
...comic energy flag and seriousness take over: a series of afflicted towns-people visits Khlestakov, and on a dimly lit stage two women plead for his assistance in tedious, unexpectedly serious tones. It seems like a screwed-up bit of pacing. But then a macabre, unforgettable vision appears: a group of eerie, frazzled black scarecrows in a Brownian movement behind the transparent plastic sheet that forms the stage's rear boundary, staring at Khlestakov like a second, ghostly audience. In his impenetrable complacency, he can ignore them with a wave of his hand. But if the audience on the other...
...office drew up a list of potential candidates for the position and sent it to the Herlihys, Orf said, adding that the group interviewed each candidate three times...
...contact bridged an age gap in a very successful way." Then too, fagging at Eton created a great many social distinctions that are a British specialty. For example, "tea fags" have a softer berth than common fags. Higher still are the "library fags," who serve seniors elected to the group known as "the Library." Library fags are excused from general calls of "Boy, up!" and "Boy, queue!" (an after-dinner general work session). Top rung for newcomers is the title Keeper of the Fags, given to a young lad brawny enough to preserve discipline...
...invented seven years ago at Penn State, but it takes a while to get an undercover fad going. Only this year did a campus divertissement known as the "tuck-in" spread to the University of Maryland, where a group of male students calling themselves Pillow Talk Inc. offered chaste bedtime tuck-ins to any classmate in the women's dorm with 99?. That price included the company of one Teddy bear for the night, a final kiss on the cheek from one of a trio of males, two of them in three-piece suits. Best...