Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from different directions and march past each other, tooting different tunes full-force. The folksy spirit of band music, combined with the thorny complexities of conflicting voices and rhythms, characterizes his work in this excellent sampler. Eugene Ormandy conducts Three Places in New England; Leonard Bernstein, Washington's Birthday; and Leopold Stokowski, the longest piece, The Robert Browning Overture...
...stay sane, the women tore pieces from the plane's upholstery and used them for pinochle cards. They took turns writing down different kinds of food they wished they had, gifts they would like. On April 30, Carla wrote, "This is my 16th birthday. I hope you are happy, Search and Rescue. You haven't found us yet." Then, her last entry, on May 4th: "Today is a bright and drippy, drippy day. We are completely soaked...
Harold Pinter is the Pavlov of playwrights. He feeds questions and withholds answers, leaving playgoers in a state of salivary anxiety. Written by Pinter in 1958, but opening on Broadway last week, The Birthday Party is certain to evoke in audiences another tantalized swivet...
McCann is edgy and truculent; Goldberg is expansive and sentimental as he reminisces about his mother's gefilte fish. In Act II, they pistol-whip Stanley with words-mad, flailing non sequiturs-charging that he "betrayed the organization." A birthday party for Stanley turns into a Walpurgisnacht, as the lights go out and Stanley goes berserk trying to throttle Meg and rape a nubile bundle of fluff called Lulu (Alexandra Berlin). Act III finds Stanley looking like a waxed zombie, Goldberg and McCann promising that "Monty" will take care of Stanley, and escorting him to something that seems suspiciously...
...city charter specifically outlawing deficit spending. Then Gordon let it be known that Miriani had amassed a too-chic-to-be-mayorly wardrobe, also had been junketing to New York at the expense of lobbyists as well as soliciting city-government appointees to buy $10 tickets to his annual birthday parties. Federal authorities and listeners were equally appalled; Miriani, now a city councilman, is awaiting trial to account for $250,000 in unreported "gift" income...