Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the Neighborhood Association have also voiced fears that the connector would serve as a precedent for other organizations that want to build bridges. One similar bridge about a mile away already spans Broadway, connecting Draper Laboratory buildings in Kendall Square...
...Museum has explored the alternative of building a tunnel to connect the buildings, but rejected the idea because it was impractical and expensive. Because of the water, telephone and sewage lines buried beneath Broadway, a tunnel could be no more than eight feet high and would be placed so deep underground that the general public would not be able...
...night, and a lady appears at her cello to play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
...prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only art can reconcile. By the end of the evening a friar can dance with a wench, and the dead come back to life, and lovers banter until they fall into each other...
DIED. Frederick Brisson, 71, theatrical and film producer who oversaw some 20 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955), then turned many of them into successful movies, and who was also responsible for the first appearances on Broadway of Play wrights Peter Shaffer (Five Finger Exercise, 1959) and Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, 1961); of a stroke; in New York City. Brisson was married for 35 years to Actress Rosalind Russell, until her death...