Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweet Charlie, by David Westheimer. Broadway's racial conscience quickens whenever it pairs a white man and a Negro woman or a Negro man and a white woman to see which combination will lure more customers to the box office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search...
...shift of power in the Democratic Party, McCarthy will have little opportunity to move into the executive branch. But he is entirely content with his position in the Senate. He believes that the role of the Legislature is changing: "In the past few years we have been running a box-score operation," he says, "trying to see how many Bills we could pass. But we have come to the end of a golden era--we have accomplished the things that should have been done...
...sleeper: a little-publicized, ill housed, low-budget stroke of near genius. There were only a couple of dozen people at Thursday night's opening, maybe because it had the misfortune to coincide with gala premieres at Adams House and the Loeb. But like the sage said: "What's box office...
...Yale's rare-book library. Situated on a 19-acre extension of the university, the $10,750,000 project (to be paid for by Texas' oil-rich land-grant endowment fund) is actually two buildings: the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library-a 200-ft.-long, 85-ft.-high box on a podium-and a low-lying 935-ft.-long campus library and research center...
With Bradley out of the picture, these same bonuses will be offered to any Harvard undergraduate who comes out for the CRIMSON's winter news borad competition. These are said to include press box seats for jammed home contests, transportation to vital away tilts, and an inside view of Harvard's world of sports...