Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first act climaxes in Patsy's marriage to Alfred (Fred Willard), a photographer who dropped out of life completely after he discovered that his successful career as a photographer continued to flourish even after he started taking pictures of (literally) shit. The two are married in a wedding ceremony conducted by the reverend of the First Existential Church (Motto: "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"), who defines honor to the bride as "not cutting (your husband's balls...
Patsy is assassinated through the living room window at the beginning of the second act, and the rest of the play concerns the characters' attempts to give their world of murder some shape, some meaning. Alfred feels that the key to all is the "free floating constellation of dots" that makes up a newspaper photo. Carol decides, "We need a army!. . . An electrically charged fence. TV cameras in every room. . . . A return to common sense. . . . lobotomies for anyone who earns less than ten thousand a year Freedom!" But ultimately the family discovers that the only sanity left to them...
...cent black audience as Jim Brown made passionate love to Raquel Welch. Fernando Lamas, looking almost as good as he did in all those Esther Williams pictures, made a great slimy villain bent on exterminating all those nice Yaqui Indians, and the magnificent Miss Welch doesn't act so bad either...
...Pill Generation, one that finds its art by turning on a knob and adjusting the antenna, and found its spiritual transcendence through a chemical catalyst, has come up with a way to get around its own act of pro-creation...
...interpreted that law to forbid most "horizontal" mergers between competitors and, to a lesser extent, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. But the courts have said little about corporate takeovers of companies in entirely different fields. Mitchell's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, plans to invoke the Clayton Antitrust Act's Section Seven, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that substantially lessen competition. He may well cite the anti-competitive potential of reciprocal purchasing arrangements, under which LTV subsidiaries, which use large amounts of steel, might favor J. & L. rather than go to the marketplace for the best deal. Beyond that...