Word: avanti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to get abreast of 1968 jargon and sexual tolerance, Samuel Taylor continues to live in the past. It speaks, well for the past. Taylor's new play Avanti, the offspring of now-forgotten works by S. N. Behrman and Philip Barry, already holds its own against the best Broadway comedies current; with a little rewriting, and one much-altered performance, it could succeed on a more absolute level...
...Sabrina Fair) and Herb Gardner (A Thousand Clowns). Krasna's Blue Hour is a Manhattan love fable. Taylor's Avanti details a triangle between an Englishwoman, an American man and the Italian bureaucracy...
Made overseas by an Italian director (Sergio Leone), based loosely on the Japanese film Yojimbo, and featuring a multilingual cast, Fistful should have been a loser from the word avanti...
...democracy espoused by Britain's Labor Party. But the way was bitterly blocked by the hard-line Marxist minority in the party's far left. In recent weeks Nenni, as party president, decided to crack the whip, managed to isolate his leftist opposition, even got control of Avanti, the party newspaper -and last week wrote a boldly anti-Communist editorial. But this courageous move cost him heavily: seven party leaders bolted, more threatened to bolt...
Studebaker's dealers had no such cushion. With the high-priced Avanti sports car, the medium-priced Hawk and all commercial trucks discontinued, they can still sell the low-priced Studebaker sedans that will be made in Hamilton. But business has been so bad recently that it could hardly get worse after last week's announcement...