Word: allenated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President of the Young Dems is a 29-year-old ex-marine, a third-year law student named Don Allen. Allen, born in Florida, has come under attack for his "radical" politics and for his out-of-state background. A warm, straightforward person, he makes no effort to conceal his views. Although he would be classified as a middle-of-the-roader in national politics, Don Allen is definitely on the political left at Ole Miss...
...Burrough's novel, Norman Mailer testified that "We are richer for the record; and we are more impressive as a nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic value and read the Supreme Judicial Court justices a poem he had composed in its praise...
...Drink the Water, by Woody Allen. That Broadway staple, the Jewish family-situation comedy, has gone into Diaspora in recent years. In A Majority of One, Gertrude Berg donned a kimono and somewhere between the tea ceremony and the kosher sukiyaki won the heart of a Japanese gentleman. The Zulu and the Zayda made color-unconscious buddies out of Menasha Skulnik and a Zulu tribesman. In Don't Drink the Water, a touring New Jersey caterer (Lou Jacobi), his wife (Kay Medford) and daughter (Anita Gillette) temporarily take asylum in a U.S. embassy in a country much like Hungary...
Making his playwriting debut, Nightclub Comic Woody Allen fills the stage with a parade of gags that hurtle past like an insomniac's sheep, some woolly, some sheared and some weird. The evening is affluent with easy laughs, and yet curiously anemic in genuine humor. Lou Jacobi and Kay Medford are masters of ethnically styled comic delivery. He gives a line a built-in shrug. She is a one-woman keening committee, and her voice has a cold in its head. The couple's common burden is a Gentile nudnick of an embassy chief who has suffered every...
...Drink the Water, an original farce by Funnyman Woody Allen...