Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint on sidewalks and cars...
Trouble was piling up in London for Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese girlfriend Yoko Ono. First was their new record album, The Two Virgins, featuring on the cover a rear-view photo of John and Yoko in the nude. Read the proposed ad: "It's just two of God's children singing and looking much as they were when they were born, only a little older." British music magazines refused album ads showing the cover. Then the couple was nabbed and charged with possession of marijuana, which Lennon once described as a "harmless giggle...
...time when theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously...
...party atmosphere that pervades the set, new ideas are constantly added as the show moves from printed script to video tape. Jokes and ideas for skits are solicited from the nonwriting staff and anyone else who happens by. The twelve-year-old daughter of a production consultant, for example, specializes in graffiti (her latest contribution: LASSIE KILLS CHICKENS). On taping days, the writers are everywhere, feeding lines on the set, in the halls, dressing rooms, offices and wardrobe department. Periodically, the cast members try out impromptu bits on one another, often walk before the camera and say the first thing...
Also, leaflets presenting lists of workers' salaries, costs of living figures, plans to boycott cafeterias, and revolutionary rhetoric, were distributed by both the ad hoc committee and the SDS Labor Committee...