Word: band
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Democrats have long been accustomed to the gentlemanly brawling between their factions of Southern conservatives and urban liberals. It is less often that Senate Republicans, so long a minority, have displayed their divisions. Yet the Senate G.O.P. now includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
...preside over the presentation of a diamond ring to "Miss Vicki" and signed up the lovers for a network wedding on Christmas Day. As Tiny tells it, he first met Vicki last June in Philadelphia when he was autographing copies of his book, Beautiful Thoughts. "He had a Band-Aid on his hand," she recalls, "and he told me it was from removing warts." For his part, Tiny, 36, was so smitten that he "shed a tear and put it in an envelope that I always keep in my ukulele...
Having made some sort of homosexual breakthrough with Mart Crowley's gentle tragicomedy The Boys in the Band, off Broadway promises to go farther with a revamped version of Fortune and Men's Eyes. This is an angry, violent foray into prison homosexuality, staged by Sal Mineo to include a naked onstage rape sequence. Nothing so nude or erotically minded as Oh! Calcutta! is presently scheduled...
...integration between sound and image, his musical allusions are literary: Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher" after they make their connection. Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" as they hit the road on their bikes. Billy and Wyatt travel through these pulsating songs the way they do the countryside-the Band, the Byrds, Dylan, Jimi Hendrix et al are employed as a musical landscape, part of the backdrop of the youth subculture, but hardly integral or necessary. Hopper doesn't explore or celebrate rock the way that Peter Whitchead did with the Pink Floyd in Tonight Let's All Make Love...
...trio of mistresses. The middleaged hero will be played by James Coco, who made a splash last season in the New York production of Next. The director is Robert Moore, who contributed the dazzling staging accountable for much of the success of New York's current Boys in the Band and Promises, Promises...