So I shall abridge my late-arriving Sanchez Agonisties — is he weak?
I'll abridge the downward drift of his later years: two failed marriages, erratic employment as a teacher and a book and film reviewer, increasing poverty, alcohol and various other addictions.
In repertory: "The Music Man," "The Complete History of America (Abridged)," "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "Floyd Collins," "Rumors," and "Cabaret".
A few days back some friends and I watched the abridged version of Gladiator.
It's a lamentable lapse, and this radically abridged Henry IV, Parts I &II is the poorer for it.
West End Girls, by Barbara Tate, read by Kate O'Sullivan (6hrs abridged, Orion, £16.99) I'm not sure about this memoir.
I mean, how could you abridge it?
A text by Thomas Jefferson, abridged from one of his letters, is inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial: "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions.
A little verse to start the week, a slightly abridged poem by John Anthony Davies: I saw a child who couldn't walk, sit on a horse, laugh and talk.
(This is abridged from a sermon I gave at the United Church of Simi Valley, CA, on 1/31).
