Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Getty Museum is more worried about U.S. taxmen than Italian judges and diplomats. California sales-tax law exempts any work of art that has been displayed outside the state for at least six months, so the Getty people have broken the boy's westward passage with stopovers at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and, currently, at the Denver Art Museum. California tax officials have no hope of collecting $234,000 in sales tax, but various Colorado tax officials have filed use-tax claims...
Among the most gifted of the newly rehabilitated writers is Lao She, a chronicler of pre-Communist China's lower classes who is best known in the West for his 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy. During the Cultural Revolution, Lao came under ferocious attack by the fanatical Red Guards. After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where...
DIED. Sir Terence Rattigan, 66, prolific British playwright (The Winslow Boy, Separate Tables); of cancer; in Hamilton, Bermuda. After Rattigan left Oxford to write plays, his father supported him during a trial period. Just as it ended, his comedy French Without Tears became a hit and ran for 1,039 performances in London. Rattigan's forte was, as he once said, "the play that unashamedly says nothing-except possibly that human beings are strange creatures, and worth putting on the stage, where they can be laughed at or cried over, as our pleasure takes...
Sometimes ABC stars even do more than that. As Happy Days grows older the relationship between the bad boy hero Fonz and the good boy hero Richie (Ron Howard) is becoming TV's own pop version of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. John Ritter of Three's Company has managed to make a popular sex symbol out of a refreshingly non-macho male. Soap, after a slow start, has begun to change its intially idiotic female leads (Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond) into believable middle-aged heroins. Though there is much to lament about ABC's blockbusters...
This play is likely to alter its coloration depending on who plays the two parts. Barbara Baxley's Emily is crisp, managerial as well as motherly and yet touchingly vulnerable. George Grizzard's Ralph is Little Boy Blue, destined never to grow up yet always capable of a last-ditch courage bordering on the heroic. It is the most compassionate portrayal of a man that Grizzard has yet achieved...