Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This production of The Country Girl is a first-class revival that is likely to attract rapt audiences. If that happens, it will not prove that in 20 years Odets has grown in stature, but only that people tend to remain, somewhat endearingly, the same. Jason Robards is the alcoholic ex-matinee idol trying to make a comeback, Maureen Stapleton is the wife to whom he clings, and George Grizzard is the young director with a shark-toothed hunger for fame...
...coach that would assume control and give direction to the team. There had definitely been dissatisfaction in the athletic office over the way the swim coaches had handled the Cahalan hassle, particularly the bad publicity they felt it received in the Crimson and elsewhere. b) "We wanted to attract the best coach possible." The sentiment expressed in numerous quarters was "Benn's a great guy but not a great coach." c) "We wanted a coach who understood the Harvard system and its philosophy, approved of it, and would fit harmoniously in it." Here appeared to be Benn's strongpoint...
...feminist art program, the first in the country, offers courses in female art history taught by women for women only. But the first step in creating an audience for feminist art is to attract people to see it, and Womanhouse performed that function. "People who don't go to art galleries feel comfortable about coming to a house, and a lot of them went away very moved," says Chicago. They were particularly struck by a tableau in which a real woman sat in a heavily perfumed bedroom, methodically applying and removing makeup, over and over again. Said...
...feminists. The ads promote "brainy" typewriters that are supposed to eliminate some typing errors made by dippy-looking secretaries, who presumably lack the brains to avoid them in the first place. In the TV commercial, the secretary is shown as a vacuous sex kitten who finds that she can attract men by becoming "an Olivetti girl...
...soaps betrays an effort "to increase the melodrama, which means using either the penis or the switchblade." Even the good people are now seen drinking. There are also black lawyers and doctors wandering around Sudsville. Although some of the shows are trying to develop a social conscience and thereby attract younger viewers, a real discussion of racial problems has yet to be added to the staple woes...