Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine men and three women, cooped up in a 9-ft. by 20-ft. attic room at the top of the old county courthouse, took five days to decide. Last week the jury awarded John Goldmark $40,000 in damages. Not one of the defendants...
What happened to them since? Curiously, all three went into a slump. Miss Hellman did an adaptation, tried writing the book for a musical, rallied somewhat with Toys in the Attic, and then, for the first time in her career, fell flat on her face with My Mother, My Father and Me last season...
...down at police headquarters. But solid professionalism is evident everywhere. The music underscores action with fine restraint, and Harrington's serviceable dialogue suits the guileless, understated performances of his principals, Linda Lawson and Dennis Hopper. They are deftly typecast. As the sailor, Hopper talks about Denver, but his Attic profile might have been minted in ancient Greece. And Actress Lawson lushly incarnates the myth of mariner and maid that has haunted men's imaginations for more than 2,000 years...
What went wrong? The script. Scenarist Mann is a competent carpenter, and he has no trouble assembling the big blocks of Sartre's story. At war's end the sensitive son (Schell) of a German shipping magnate (March) shuts himself up in his father's attic and for 15 years pretends that his country lies in permanent ruins. To his crazy way of thinking, if defeat had not really meant destruction for his country, how then could he justify the killing he had done, the crimes he had committed to assure his country's survival...
...Franklin Ford, his wife, and two sons took up residence in an Elmwood that would have been at home in pre-Revolutionary Cambridge. Last Tuesday, Mrs. Ford took us on a guided tour of the new Elmwood, from the front door with its heavy brass latch to the attic timbers with their bayonet scars. (At least, 13-year-old John Ford says the marks on the attic timbers are bayonet scars.) The grounds were still in an uproar, but the house itself was remarkably complete and remarkably pleasant...