Word: au
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway café house-usually an operation that is long on valor but considerably shorter on value. Typical of this arena is Collision Course, a show consisting of eleven short plays, most of them by café-nurtured playwrights, presented last week at Manhattan's Café Au go Go. All were esthetic stillbirths. Alternating between juvenile temper tantrums and thumb-sucking private reveries, they dwelt on the tried-and-trite themes of alienation, lack of communication, male-female hostility, the nausea of being an American, and the pending nuclear apocalypse. In terms of the development of first-caliber...
...exhibit itself has been mounted with great sensitivity to the viewer's relaxed involvement. Galleries XI and XIII have been filled with large works; in XI, a series of very powerful dark field nudes and interiors (e.g., Le Foyer, #37, or Femme Au Bain, #31); in XIII, a colored, proto-abstract landscape series. In the central room, divided by partitions, the smaller, more casual works have been mounted in groups, much as they would have appeared on the wall of a late nineteenth century room. Flowers on console tables bring out the color of those monotypes which have been reworked...
...television newscasting nowadays, everybody's got his own private beat. but NBC's laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything...
...Quite frankly," declared the New York Governor to a nationwide television au dience, "I find it clear at this time that a considerable majority of the party's leaders want the candidacy of former Vice President Richard Nixon...
...Ways. To avoid the difficulties that beset the first generation of Au-togiros, J-2's Designer Drago Jovanovich took advantage of modern helicopter technology, effecting many improvements in the control and design of the overhead rotor. The J-2's rotor is stronger but also lighter and smaller than previous rotors, enabling it to be run up to speed faster. When heavier rotors used in the 1930s were al lowed to slow down, their inertia prevented them from being revved up quickly, causing control problems...