Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fate, as the poet says, makes bad jokes." That was Euripides' sad comment on life, and today it can still make us think and cry. Especially if it is put on the stage with skill and passion. Thomas Babe has embellished an ancient theme with the trappings of 1967, and the result is such a success that few of us who saw his Trojan Women will soon get over...
This has been a bad season for Washington institutions. Jimmy Hoffa has gone to jail, the House has thrown out Adam Powell, and taxation without representation in the District of Columbia is on the ropes...
...Grand-Hotel de 1'Europe in Bad Gastein, Austria. Since the 15th century when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III discovered the therapeutic effects of Bad Gastein's thermal waters, the tiny Alpine village has been called "the Spa of Kings." Kaiser Wilhelm spent 20 seasons there, and it remains a favored haven for pashas and potentates. The sprawling, four-story hotel, opened in 1909, boasts bathrooms with 7-ft.-sq. tubs, marble floors and walls, and taps for mineral as well as plain water. ¶-Park-Hotel Adler in Hinterzarten, Germany. An ancient Black Forest inn that dates...
...fundamental rule of comedy: the absurd only looks that way when it stands next to something rational. The movie makes the whole world look crazy, including the babbling hero. Thus the representatives of war and peace appear equally loony, and one side seems just as good-or as bad-as the other...
...breath-taking 20-minute sora, with stirring satire--and satire that stirs you is the rarest and most wonderful kind. But the middle, oh the middle, is what they tell me Hasty Pudding shows are like, and second-rate Pudding shows at that. You can say that bad and irrelevant jokes are genuine Aristophanes, but that excuse comes 2,000 years too late...