Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Under the direction of Peter Brook, Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company has successfully transformed Peter Weiss's hit play into a cinematic rowdydow no less frazzle-dazzling than it was on the stage...
...Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, as written by Playwright Peter Weiss and performed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama. In a churning rowdydow of rant, cant, poetry, politics, music, magic, rite and ribaldry, the play moved across the stage like half a dozen movies mingling incompatibly on a giant screen. When Director Brook finally came to film the play, he simply let his cameras...
...message of Marat / Sade seems to be that bourgeois society is a madhouse, and anybody who lives in it must be out of his mind. In the talented hands of Weiss and Brook, there is dramatic power in an idea whose time has passed...
...weeks ago, Pepsico Inc., the parent company of Pepsi-Cola, announced that it will move its headquarters from midtown Manhattan's Park Avenue to the 112-acre grounds of the Blind Brook Polo Club in suburban Westchester County, which it purchased. Nearby Greenwich, Conn., last week gave preliminary approval to American Can Co.'s plan for shifting its 1,300-employee international headquarters to a 141-acre tract by 1970. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. bought 60 acres in Stamford, Conn., for its chemical division, along with 700 white-collar workers. Uris Buildings Corp., builder of dozens of Manhattan...
...Brook's voice seemed to quiver just a bit as he told of the Tigers' 71-39 clobbering of midwest toughie Ohio State. Then he started to rattle off an impressive list of Princeton strengths...