Word: beds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Panthers. An important new discovery is that the FBI through an informer supplied the Chicago police with a floor plan of Panther leader Fred Hampton's apartment before the apartment was raided and Hampton killed. This development lends support to the contention that Hampton, who was killed in bed, neither shot back nor fell victim to an accident, but rather was murdered by police acting on the encouragement...
...might well have been expected to have taken his final curtain. The National Theater has revived Travers' Plunder, serene fare today but daring when it was first produced 48 years ago because it set jewel theft and murder in a French-window farce. And brand new is The Bed Before Yesterday, a West End comedy that stars Joan Plowright as a foul-tempered, filthy-rich, frustrated widow belatedly discovering the pleasures of the marriage bed. The double-header triumph has earned Travers acclaim he has not received in decades. Says Guardian Critic Michael Billington: "It is heartening to find...
Liberated from the conventions that made it "improper and unpleasant to reveal anything about sex," Travers felt he could create characters like Alma, the heroine of Bed. By the last act, Alma is chasing her fatigued new husband back into the bedroom; audiences affectionately cheer her on to a rendezvous that completes the comic transformation from Victorian prude to exuberant earth mother...
Rights to Bed have already been sold in a dozen countries, and Travers has completed two more comedies that his producers are holding for coming seasons, bringing his lifetime total to 23 plays. He has moved back to London and plans to stay. A man about town again, he dines out several nights a week with theater friends. When one of them recently brought up the subject of the ultimate end of his long career, Travers was calm and in character. Said he: "I want my tombstone to read, This is where the real fun begins...
...gives even Bale bad dreams. "The heel is the last point of your body," he says. "You can't catch yourself if you fall. Sometimes I wake up at night dreaming I have just missed the bar." On these occasions, adds Jeanette, "he almost knocks me out of bed, grabbing at things...