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...occasion, the stage groupings extended across so broad a space that I was forced to choose between watching the speaker and following another character's elaborate pantomime of reaction. Where the pay requires both speed and variation of pace to succeed, the direction has chosen a laggardly tempo with ripe interludes of music or silence dividing scenes from their successors. Finally, where the text asks faith from its producers, Mr. McBain's cutting does some minor but significant violence to the words. Not only is Balthasar's lyric on inconstancy omitted, along with any attempt at a staging...
...above some high white tombstones loomed the pumpkin. Scott had nurtured the pumpkin from a seedling to its present ripe state. You are a grown up pumpkin, to told it. Scott wove his way through the tombstones, across the messy room, and came to his pumpkin. He stroked it. He murmured...
Society has often had doubts about intermarriage between the generations. The Talmud warns that "the Lord will not pardon him" who marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son. Literature abounds with bawdy cautionary tales describing the jealous geriatric husband and his ripe, relentless bride. For all the sniggers, though, older men have historically married much younger women. Given the hazards of childbearing until 50 or 60 years ago, it was not unusual for a man to bury one or two young wives. In those days, death provided the variety now offered...
...dividend looked like a smart move. The company waged a bitter proxy fight to get its 75%, and has offered to buy the remaining 25% at $45 per share. Before the offer was made, the stock had been selling for about half that amount. Great American certainly looked ripe for plucking. It had been losing money on insurance for at least a decade, mainly because it concentrated on personal fire and casualty policies, a competitive area plagued by rising losses. Like many other hard-pressed insurance concerns, Great American concentrated on making profits in the stock market, where it accumulated...
...Nuxhall established a firm precedent for such successors as George Plimpton by undergoing a merciless pounding from the then as now champion Cardinals. He did not again appear on the major league scene until 1951, when he won his first game at the ripe old age of 22. So please, Mr. Powers, say it ain't Joe. Now that you have tested us and we have been found not altogether wanting, vouchsafe unto us the correct answer. Michael Greenwald