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...front of a sagging wooden shack trimmed with Christmas tree lights. "All the water flows down here from the main road. This is Louis Welsh Street, the worst street in Bordersville." A hundred yards up the road, Louis Welsh Street intersected Martin Luther King Avenue, then disappeared into the thick Texas brush...
Miss Murphy does have one marvelous piece of business in her "unsex me here" soliloquy. When she summons "thick night" and the "smoke of hell," she grabs the pointed crucifix hanging around her neck and spits on it. At the words "my keen knife" she inverts the cross, turning it into a lethal dagger. This is an electrifying moment, altogether fitting for a play in which "fair is foul" and everything is topsy-turvy...
Hidden away behind the high green fences and thick belts of trees, the compound-with its acres of lush lawns, gleaming silver birches, dark pines and carefully tended beds of flowers-looks like a weekend hideaway for members of the Soviet elite. But there are no rustic dachas (summer homes). Instead, the tranquil enclave is filled with space-age hardware: laboratories, giant centrifuges and flight simulators...
...would take to break Ruth's record this season. Now 39, he claimed that he was less able to handle the "hard stuff," the 90-m.p.h. screamers that are thrown by fastball pitchers. Though the sources of his power-a rippling physique (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) and thick, whippy wrists that are bigger (8 in. around) than Muhammad Ali's-seem as sound as ever, he has been conserving himself by sitting out the second half of doubleheaders and avoiding afternoon games when he has played the night before...
...class pinball, and quiet toned jukebox--all suited to the midnight muncher. The 24 Restaurant, next door to Elsie's has had more facelifts in the last few years than practically any place around, and now it is better than ever: Greek salads heavy with feta cheeze and cheezy thick Greek pizza, the kind that leaves strings dangling when you snag a bite...