Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production fails to do him or Norman justice. A man who envisions Australia in winter as an army of gumbooted koala bears and who can find menace in his pajamas ("The tops are alright-it's the bottoms you've got to watch") must be lovable. Richard Benjamin is not. Too broad for the English idiom, he appears to have strayed from a road company of Fiddler on the Roof. Eric Thompson directs with the same ordered frenzy he applied to Ayckbourn's hit of last year, Absurd Person Singular, but this time he is hampered...
...APPARENT, at first sight, that this exhibition is strange. Eighteen statues of Diana standing on one toe and holding a crossbow, eight busts of Benjamin Franklin, 23 plaques of Robert Louis Stevenson, 20 lions crushing 20 serpents--they all seem redundant, somehow. They are not; each sculpture is in some way different from its partner. But they differ in very subtle ways--in the lie of the mane on the lion's neck, in the direction Franklin happens to be looking. Jeanne Wasserman and the staff of the Fogg set up this exhibit to explore these changes; a very well...
...SEPTEMBER 1776, the Continental Congress sent John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to Staten Island to negotiate with Lord Howe. On their journey to Philadelphia the two stopped for the night in Brunswick, where at a crowded inn they were forced to share not only a small room but the same bed. Trouble started immediately, as Adams--a self-proclaimed invalid--wanted the window shut and Franklin, claiming it would be healthier, insisted it stay open. Franklin won out, and the two Americans faced the cold together in bed. But years later, in his Autobiography, Adams was to have the final...
Eerie Mist. Within several hours some 500 police and extra guards were rushed to the jail. Commissioner of Correction Benjamin J. Malcolm and Peter Tufo, the unpaid head of the city's Board of Correction, arrived and bravely agreed to enter one of the cell blocks held by the rebels in order to negotiate. Donning gas masks, the two men crawled through the hole in cell block 6 into an eerie tear-gas mist. They then asked the tense inmates for "delegates." Seven leaders - who carried homemade shivs and wore blankets and towels around their heads as a protection...
...very best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck and--for a sinister Calvinist-type--Benjamin Fatalist ("The Fatalist"); or describing holiday revels ("Passions...