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played the angel (as well as a handful of other roles in the show; all of the cast members play multiple parts) in productions at the Bureka Theatre in San Franciso-T hung on a rope,’ she said, ‘we had $1.99 to do the whole show*—and the Taper in Los Angeles, where the angel flew on a single wire and was never quite able to keep from slowly spinning when she should have been stiff.”
So it goes at the greatest paper in the land. The Times lately has confused jerry-built with juryrigged. Maureen Dowd, one of the Times’ best, supposes that “to make do” is spelled “to make due.” Many of the Times’ stars fail the test of using “like” where “such as” is demanded.
In my usual mood of benign tolerance, I might forgive all these literary offenses of The New York Times. I am all heart. But not today. Last month the Times hiked its newsstand price from 75 cents to $1. If I throw a few snowballs, I am seeking merely to get my 25 cents change.
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