Word: brokendown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of straight entertainment The New Theatre Workshop scored a minor triumph Thursday with its presentation of Gregory Corso's In This Hung-up Age. That the author cannot take any credit for originality of situation--six passengers and Beauty stranded on a brokendown bus in the middle of the desert--is no drawback in this case. The language of his characters is fast, vigorous, and funny, and the denouement is grotesquely original. In the cast, Fred Mueller as the Apache, Harry Bingham as the Hipster, James Rieger as the Poetman, and Earle Edgerton as the Tourist are superb caricatures...
...brushman's holiday and sketch faces elsewhere. One of his favorite hangouts is in the upper reaches of mid-Manhattan- a nondescript restaurant which is a popular early-morning gathering place for a strange group of customers that ranges from cab drivers and nightwatchmen to bookies and brokendown prizefighters. To these customers, who are either starting their day or ending their night, Guy is just a small man with exceedingly bright eyes, bushy brows and a halo of white hair. They do not know his name, but he shares the casual nodding acquaintance of strangers who follow the same...