Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer is an unflaggingly funny drawing-room farce based on a single droll conceit: what might people do and say and discover about each other if they were suddenly left in a total blackout on the evening of a vitally important party? To begin with, this poses a little problem of stagecraft: How do you present actors in the dark and still allow the audience to see them? Simple: by reversing things. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is dark; when they are suddenly supposed to go out, the stage blazes with...
...course, the bachelor unexpectedly shows up during the blackout, and one of the flit-and-run sight gags of the evening is Crawford's desperately adroit and maladroit effort to sneak the antiques back to the rightful owner's flat. By the time that Crawford's mistress (Geraldine Page) makes her unseen appearance, it is clear that British Playwright Shaffer has skimmed the most risibility from invisibility since the old Topper films...
...become chief overseer of John son's cherished legislative program, as well as his top domestic troubleshooter, handling the Northeast's power blackout in 1965 and the threatened steel strike the same year. Rumpled and slightly roly-poly, Califano has had to overcome some handicaps. For one thing, he was born closer to Brownsville, Brooklyn, than Brownsville, Texas. For another, while he is hardly a yes man, he is still too much in awe of his explosive boss to be a genuinely effective no man, as Moyers could...
...Boston, Harvard students planned a series of lights-out beer busts. For stay-at-homes, a chain of New York novelty shops offered a kit containing 50 "I Was There" buttons and a candle. Most of the 30 million Americans who lived through history's biggest blackout a year ago this week approached the first anniversary of The Night with a certain nostalgia. The memory also prompted a more practical concern. What, if any thing, has been done to prevent another failure on the scale of the 1965 eclipse that plunged...
Much still remains to be done. The New York City subway system, in which 800,000 passengers were stranded last fall, has yet to set up its own emergency power system or even a lighting plant. On the basis of the lessons learned from the blackout, both the Federal Power Commission and the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation strongly endorsed a bill in Congress this year that would have given the FPC greater control over power-grid planning. The measure died, largely be cause the utilities lobby opposed it. And though - until 1965 - utility companies had for years...