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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 4:38 remaining, Gallagher tied the game for the fourth time on two free throws. Again, the Crimson could not get the go-ahead hoop, and after Peters scored for the Elis, Yale began to stall effectively. Harvard was forced to make mistakes and commit fouls, and the Big Blue netted eight consecutive points to assure victory...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Elis Outdistance Hoopsters, 76-70 | 2/8/1969 | See Source »

...Norton (of the Record American) do not like the show they have written. These men sitting around a littered coffee table know that if--when their work opens in New York a month later--Clive Barnes (of the New York Times) does not like their show, they are in big trouble. Their show will close, their artistic reputations will suffer, and the play's investors will lose a lot of money ($150,000 and up for a drama, $500,000 and up for a musical). Indeed, the stakes are high...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Doing It 'On the Road' . . . to Broadway, that is | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Lately about four plays per season close on the road in this manner. This fall's big road flop was the musicalization of Bruce Jay Friedman's novel, A Mother's Kisses. Friedman did his own adaptation (on the heels of his successful off-Broadway comedy, Scuba Duba), and it closed in Baltimore...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Doing It 'On the Road' . . . to Broadway, that is | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Occasionally, productions with mixed or bad out-of-town reactions are transformed into big hits during the tryout period. Jerome Robbins (director-choreographer of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof) was called in to doctor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Funny Girl. Both times he achieved the miracle. Any Wednesday had a disastrous tryout, with many different directors and a leading man who walked out shortly before the New York opening. It ran two years on Broadway...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Doing It 'On the Road' . . . to Broadway, that is | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...team, Yale has a 6-11 record overall, the last two losses last weekend to Columbia, 69-48, and to Cornell 65-64. Against the Big Red, Morgan and captain Thatcher Shellaby overcame a five point lead with less than a minute to go only to lose on a last second mid-court shot...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard Five Faces Yale Under IAB Roof Tonight | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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