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...most Americans, the story of The Netherlands during the second World War is the story of a life in the attic: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. What this concise new history of the Dutch experience demonstrates is that at the end of five years of Nazi occupation, the country itself had become a kind of attic of history -cold, cramped, empty of food, a dangerous refuge that the occupiers could still ransack to find men for their labor camps-but so strategically insignificant that it was bypassed by the liberators until the very...
Lillian Hellman, another guest dramatist, first established herself as a major force in American theatre with The Children's Hour -a psychological drama dealing with lesbianism-that shocked audiences when it first opened in 1934. Later, she wrote The Little Foxes, and Toys in the Attic (1960), and was last year the recipient of the National Book Award...
...population regardless of their dramatic interest-for the troupe has pioneered a new mode of theatrical presentation-while those more closely attuned to the proscenium stage may enjoy the opportunity to hear playwrights Charles Gordone (No Place To Be Somebody), Arthur Kopit (Indians), and Lillian Hellman (Toys in the Attic), or Village Voice Drama Critic John Lahr discuss their work...
...persuaded the movers to list the packers' labels, one of which was "basement, attic and garage junk." At 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, the boss announced that his van was fully loaded and that she would have to get a second van?from where, he did not know or care. In desperation, Mrs. McCulloch phoned the moving company's offices in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. No one answered. By midmorning she reached the Chicago office, which arranged to send a second van. After Mrs. McCulloch arrived at her new home, she watched as the movers knocked much of the paint...
...long ago, people went up to the attic to stow clutter away. Today they bring it down. Nostalgia and its bastard cousin, camp, have transformed debris into antiques, and trivia into gold. In the Hollywood attic, two losers have been moldering for over a year, waiting for a miracle that would render them profitable. The leftovers are Fearless Frank and Madigan's Millions, and the miracle is Midnight Cowboy, which reinforced the reputation of Dustin Hoffman and elevated Jon Voight from a cipher into a star with a six-figure salary. This month American International Pictures, with the calculation...