Word: bard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of scenes are especially juicy. At one point, for reasons too amazing to explain, Joe and the ad-man participate in a freaky orgy (pronounced with a bard "g" by Joe) in the freak-infested East Village. The two hippie-haters take their share of the free sex, grass and psychedelic that abound in such haunts-and the results are, well, curious...
...bard of the boxing world, Cassius Clay, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, last week made it back into the ring, although still barred from professional competition for evading the draft. The former world heavyweight champion won all three of his short exhibition bouts in Atlanta, but three years of battling the courts had obviously taken its toll. The speed of his punches and his Ali-shuffle were somewhat slowed, as was his tongue. Admitted the usually loquacious Clay afterward: "I'm not in shape...
...seeks enlightenment from some sages of India, then sets out to the countryside to apply his new-found wisdom. Each adventure turns out to be a con game, with somebody else working the con and Hatterr as the game. Attempting to exorcise the mystical fit of an itinerant bard, he is himself accused of being possessed by a spirit and is nearly burned alive on a pyre. "Damme," he says, "this is Life and contrast...
STRATFORD, Conn-The production of All's Well That Ends Well that has opened the American Shakespeare Festival's sixteenth season forces some rather drastic rethinking about this notoriously puzzling play-and that is of course always a laudable effect. Far from the Bard's best work, this uneven play nonetheless has a sufficient number of intriguing features to justify its periodic staging...
...said British Actor Wilfrid Hyde White recently, with a bow to the Bard and an eye to the gaming tables and betting shops that stretch the length and breadth of the sceptered isle. Britain is Europe's gamblingest nation, and legalized betting may be the country's largest industry. Britain's 16,000 betting shops, 1,200 casinos and 2,000 bingo clubs employ 100,000 people and account for an estimated yearly turnover of $5 billion. The government's slice is nearly $250 million...