Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the cast is proficient, but mostly a backdrop for these three. David Levy as Hysterium, the slave-in-chief on whom Pseudolus has leverage because of his collection of pornographic pottery, is suitably hysterical, in all senses of the word. He runs about like a Skinner-box mouse on Thorazine. Taking time out to sing "I'm Calm," he shows he's as cool under fire as barbecue sauce in a heat wave. Andy Borowitz is on target too, in his characterization of Lycus, a gentleman and procurer. He adds just the right dash of street...
Wolfe blamed Gropius for today's "hotel rooms that look like the inside of a Westclox alarm clock box" and homes that resemble "the engine room of the Grand Coulee...
While Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) promised a nationwide Democratic "tidal wave" at the Fantasia in Cambridge, Independent Saundra Graham's supporters gathered across from the Jack-in-the-Box in Central Square to applaud her victory against incumbent John J. Toomey...
What a stupid question. How far a drive is it, after all, to New Hampshire, where the liquor stores are open eight days a week? See you around the ballot box...
More than a quarter of all current Broadway shows-seven of them-are black. Porgy and Bess, returning in the full operatic panoply of George Gershwin's original version (TIME, July 19), has for four straight weeks broken all box-office records for a legitimate Broadway show. The black edition of Guys and Dolls, the long-running The Wiz (Oz over a different rainbow), and Bubbling Brown Sugar, a revue celebrating Harlem in its Cotton Club heyday, are all doing turnaway business. So is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a "choreopoem" about...