Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep It Cozy. Take the case of The Fantasticks, a shamelessly romantic bit of fluff with a first-rate score. After losing money the first nine weeks, it managed to set up a love affair with its audience, kept everything cozy and intimate in a 150-seat, off-Broadway house. Fans of the show began going back again and again; one critic comes back every anniversary. So an initial investment of $16,500 has quietly turned into a $262,000 profit, and last week The Fantasticks went larking into its sixth year, just 515 performances behind the alltime off-Broadway...
...offer a slight correction to your admirable account of my affair with that cow (in the CRIMSON of Saturday, May 1). The consolatory verses that you quoted were of course only a remodeling of the well-known lines from Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubalyat of Omar Khayam...
...guessed, the book has its sentimental liabilities. But the show is an unpretentiously happy-go-lucky affair. Choreographer Onna White stages one rousing cakewalk number, with the chorus rhythmically seesawing its arms, that bears a remarkable resemblance to the title dance of Hello, Dolly! Imported Star Tommy Steele is a kind of cockney Bobby Morse. He has a boyishly infectious half-moon grin, and his ingratiating style is to woo an audience rather than...
...best of it burns into the mind. As the pawnbroker, Rod Steiger performs with tightly measured virtuosity. He is colorless, an inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes the boy by telling him: "You are nothing to me." In the tragic aftermath of that rejection, Nazerman...
...guilt in the mythological murders of a father figure and a surrogate son. The father figure, an aged Japanese urologist, helps Finkelstone to discharge his guilt for what happened at Hiroshima by consenting to sterilize the silly schnook; the urologist's death is only casually connected with the affair, but Finkelstone greedily takes the blame for it. The surrogate son, a Sioux scholarship student turned beatnik, helps Finkelstone to engage in hallucinogenic mushroom-munching; the beatnik's death is only remotely related to the hero's spree, but Finkelstone thirstily accepts responsibility. The novel is grotesque...