Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home front. He was no stranger to the territory, of course. The last time he ventured into Viet Nam "in South Korea" and later declared that U.S. officials had "brainwashed" him. This time Romney came away convinced that he had "a firm grasp of the situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate the situations and get at the facts that I wanted to know." A somewhat different appraisal came from one top U.S. official in Saigon: "The Governor seemed bent on some kind of political kamikaze or, better said, hara-kiri...
...first to shake his hand. "I don't like some of the things you've been saying about Viet Nam," he explained. Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military leaders greeted him coolly, if at all. Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force, was scheduled to talk...
...week at his Public Theater in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In his years as producer of New York's open-air Shakespeare summer festival in Central Park, Papp has proved his ability to do the Bard straight. This time he does Shakespeare free and fancy. To a background of mind-bending rock music, his characters speak of Denmark, although they are costumed to suggest a modern military camp. Yet it is abundantly clear that the time and place of the action are any time and any place, no time and no place. Papp, in other words, has located...
...TIME, Nov. 10), brings to the title role an imaginative boisterousness not unlike his superior work in that film; Ralph Waite is a dashingly demagogic Claudius. Anita Dangler is a fluttery flibbertigibbet of a Gertrude, while April Shawhan is a sexy, miniskirted Ophelia. Gait MacDermot's pounding rock background seems at least as appropriate to this version of the play as the gentle pleasing of a lute might have been in a 17th century production. Papp's new Hamlet will not crowd traditional stagings off the board, but it deserves credit for trying to cast fresh light...
...desires meeting uninhibited females for mutual satisfaction. No scruples. Am novice in Arts, but eager to learn. Modern wife consents. Call Ernie, (212) 265-3599. 9 a.m. to 11 p.m." The first time the writer called, all that she could hear was a child squalling loudly in the background and a harassed male voice that shouted, "Could you call me back in a few minutes?" When she did, he was all caution. "This may get you mad, but you'll have to give me your phone number and I'll call you back. I mean-well-you sound...