Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paradise--967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Telephone 254-2052. Tickets available at box office and major ticket outlets. Must be 20 years of age or older. Rachel Sweet. July 26, 8:30 p.m. $5.50 advance, $6.50 day of show...
Director Peter Sellars chose to combine two Wedekind plays--Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box--that were treated in Berg's opera Lulu. Wedekind, writing in the late 19th century, deliberately set out to shock and horrify the conventional polite society of his time. Some of the melodramatic trappings of his play stem from his desire to force members of what he saw as a stuffy and hypocritical society to recognize the sex, passion and greed that lay at the foundation of their relationships. In Lulu, Wedekind describes the rise and fall of a peculiarly passionless beauty who works herself...
...Haifa next month, is that both men feel a sense of isolation as they seek to extend the perimeters of peace. Begin's government is mildly worried because a number of influential American Jews have questioned the timing, if not the legality, of the West Bank settlements (see box...
...main legions of portable fans are mostly young and predominantly-but not always -black or hispanic. They do not quite add up to a subculture, but they may represent the rise of a new species of radio fan. Their ears are tuned in constantly to what they call the box. Their boxes come in all sizes, with the biggest the size of suitcases and the best equipped with auxiliary tape decks. The fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric...
Already my Yankee enthusiasm (or rather my Red Sox apathy) had undergone a disastrous blow. And I hadn't even reached the box office yet. I began wondering if my Yankee loyalty was authentic or if it was merely a circumstance of being raised in upstate New York. Could it be that I never had been exposed to the "thrill" of Fenway? The Green Monster, Fenway Franks, bleacher anarchy, unrestrained fans, and nearly as much tradition as in The Big Apple? For a while I was scared. But when I finally entered the Park and gazed over the infield...