Word: london
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't. He never took responsibility for building or running anything. But he had money sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example. And he knew how to use money to push his children along as fast as they could be pushed. Yes, he knew what money...
...therapeutic abortion is saving the life of the mother. As a result, most women must leave the state. Usually they are advised to go to nearby Cleveland or to Chicago, where abortions are still illegal but can be performed safely and discreetly-and sometimes they travel as far as London.* The Michigan ministers refer them to doctors on a list that has been checked out by Bielby himself or by a cooperating physician. "In this way," says Bielby, "we're not recommending people to quacks or butchers in the back rooms of drugstores...
...Aldwych is one of the harder theatres in London to get to: if you go by underground, you get off at Holborn and walk a very long block down to the Stand. This is its only disadvantage, however, and counterbalancing that is one overpowering merit: the Aldwych is the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Perhaps the most salient comment about this group is expressed on the back of every RSC program: "The company is responsible for most of the major Shakespeare productions seen in this country." And one might add, most of the major Shakespeare productions seen...
Enough of Thirsites. It was perhaps fitting that this play was performed in the grimy heart of London, while The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Winter's Tale were performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company's real home in its theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. There the lawns, though trampled, are green...
Palimpsest. After Pat's stroke, Roald settled the family in their country house outside London. He set up a relentless therapy schedule and organized relay teams of visitors to keep the patient's morale up. Pat's principal enemy was despair. Her career seemed shattered. Her right leg was bracketed in an unsightly brace, and her brain was as faint and blurry as a palimpsest. She fished in vain for the names of common objects. Even Peter Rabbit eluded...