Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pics become available for his use 21 days after they close their Boston run. The extra-price stuff (like "Psycho" or "Expresso Bongo") does not hit the Square until after a subsequent regular-price Boston run. Then, after the usual 21-day blackout, it slithers into the U.T., much to the distress of those who have seen it in Boston for more cash...
...grubby St. Nicholas Arena felt that contrite. Actress Maureen Stapleton (Toys in the Attic) rushed weeping to the microphone and announced irrelevantly: "This union is my family and my life." The Actors Equity meeting had convened to ratify a settlement of Broadway's week-long theater blackout. Each side claimed victory, but each side had been hurt. Producers toted up losses of over $1,000,000; Equity owed its 741 locked-out members close to $90,000 in per-diem allowances...
...continually falls on her face but always comes up covered with roses, and 2) Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that describes a disastrous blind date. In a rapid succession of hilarious Freudian slips, Judy bends the young man's cigarette to a limp parabola, splatters his drink on his lap, butts him with her head and finally, as she brushes by a blazing dish of crepes suzette, goes...
...same evening U.S. Ambassador Walter McConaughy drove to Rhee's palace through gunfire and blackout to hammer Herter's point home. Unspoken, but clearly recognized by Rhee, was the possibility that unless his government mended its ways, President Eisenhower might not only cancel his recently scheduled trip to Korea but might even re-examine the question of the $200-$300 million in aid that the U.S. gives to South Korea annually...
...superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox are made-to-order blackout skits; The Night the Bed Fell is a natural recitation piece; Walter Mitty's secret visions make fine capsule dramas. Other bits of Thurber enhance an intimate revue by extending its horizons without violating its spirit. Finally, blown-up Thurber drawings serve the show equally well as sources...