Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Liberace, it was manner and clothes that made the man. Playing the 20,000-seat Hollywood Bowl in 1952, he had a set of white tails made up "so they could see me in the back row." He had a little gold lame jacket added in Las Vegas and, says Liberace, "what started as a gag became a trademark...
...Boilermakers") from opponents who meant it as a term of derision. It copied its school colors from Princeton's. It has been playing in the Big Ten ever since the ten were still seven, but in all those 70 years it has never once been to the Rose Bowl, and the last time it won an undisputed conference championship was in 1929. For that matter, Purdue has rarely even been the best team in the state of Indiana; Notre Dame is located just 104 mi. away in South Bend...
...white supervisor works in terror, complains that her Negro assistants ignore her. They have their own complaints. Says one: "The kids want to see Disneyland; instead she goes to the art museum. They want to take boat rides at MacArthur Park, so she takes them to the Hollywood Bowl. She's always talking about 'structured programs'-but she forgets these ain't 'structured' kids...
...Samuel Beckett, played both the Venice and New York fests. It is a stark, black-and-white portrait of an old man who awaits death in a small, lonely room. Seeking absolute solitude, he turns out his cat and dog, closes the curtains, covers the parrot cage and goldfish bowl with his coat, and blacks out the room's only mirror. Finally, he destroys the last reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before him, he comes...
...nothing. He explains to a visiting doctor that he has achieved a new clarity of consciousness and awareness of the true nature of things. Eventually, the doctor commits Jacques to a luxurious mental hospital, where he sits contemplating on the floor in a private room, nibbling occasionally from a bowl of fruit. He is completely happy. "I have got the better of them," he murmurs as the picture ends...