Word: neatness
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...forgiven. Forgotten? Not just yet. "Why, we're plain old Hatfields and McCoys," says one of the latter in a shrugging, boiler-plate disclaimer, "good friends and neighbors . . ." Yet after a reminiscence has meandered a while, and the truce reaffirmed again, the rote kindliness can give way to neat bursts of partisanship. In bits and pieces, a little blame is assigned, victory claimed. The legacy is not erased, just quiet and manageable. Modern Hatfields and McCoys do not quite know whether to be proud or embarrassed by their inglorious family histories, and most are a little of both. That...
...looks and chemistry," concedes Pfeiffer, a looker. Caulfield, an Englishman who is married to Actress Juliet Mills, 40, feels the musical "will be as good as if not better than the original." Says he, in the parlance of Grease's Rydell High School: "It's a really neat story...
...professor climbing up on the tractor seat and away he goes, pulling behind his large organizing idea over the bumps and furrows of history, until he has smoothed it out to a nice, neat, organized surface--in other words, into a system...
...food banks that provide free food for the poor in and around Seattle had a shortage of bread last summer. Meanwhile, Seattle's King County jail had a shortage of wholesome prisoner activities. Putting those two ingredients together, unusually enterprising county bureaucrats came up with a neat solution: take a group of idle inmates, provide training and let them bake bread. The result has been a fast-rising success. Since the start- up last month, the bakery has attracted 25 prisoners, who now turn out 430 loaves daily. The bread, which is nearly as hearty as English muffins, proved...
THINGS BRIGHTEN CONSIDERABLY, but not enough to compensate, in the third play, The Lady or the Tiger by cartoonist Shel Silverstein. This is a neat sketch about a murderously overblown T.V. game show that climaxes in the Astrodome with the contestant, dressed as a gladiator, getting either the girl of his dreams and $12 million or a man-eating tiger ("flown in by Air India") and certain death. It's set in the office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when...