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Both moves are disastrous. The context is so implausible that one cannot believe in the honesty of the theatrical experience. We are shown a stiff-upper-lip Colonel firmly set in the aristocratic European military tradition-and are asked to accept him as part of upper-class New York social circles. We are asked to believe in a young debtype with scruples about sex and religion. And, after one of the greatest tie-loosening decades in American history, we must also accept her guilt over marrying the man she loves against her mother's wishes...
...real star of the evening was Mrs. McCleavey's shrouded corpse, and its accoutrements-her grayish marble eyes, her false teeth, her Bingo Society "floral tribute." Maybe if we all had the chance to tear the dead apart and turn them upside down in locked cabinets and carry their stiff corpses around in our arms as the characters in Loot do, we might all find release from the hold of death in our minds. For as objects, in silk-lined strong-boxes, our bodies, as Orton sees them, are interchangeable and not so much contemptible as laughable. Joe Orton...
...Specifically, S.U.N.Y. and officials of the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation, which are financing the projects' first years with $1,800,000 of planning money, point to the successful experience of the University of London. Since 1858, it has given a degree to anyone who can pass its stiff exams, whether or not the student has been in residency or attended classes...
...Stiff Bargain. By the time last week's accord ended a month of confrontation in Teheran, the Shah had established himself as leader of the world's oil-producing nations and changed the balance of power between oil-producing and consuming countries. Under the stiff provisions of a new, five-year pact, the posted price of Persian Gulf oil-on which royalties and taxes are calculated-will rise by 35? per bbl. The producing companies' taxes will also go up 5%, to 55%. Every year until 1975, the companies will pay an additional 5? per bbl., plus...
...Sammy, my jaw's stiff," she said. Then: "Sammy, I can hardly talk." Before long her mouth was frozen into a pretty but irremovable grin. My eyes brimming with tears, I decided to tell her the truth...