Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible, despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn...
...Café Students. The Gaullist government is frantically building 42,000 more university places. That is less than half the need, and not a single new place is being added at the University of Paris, which has 100,000 students in its five colleges in the Latin Quarter. Hardest-hit is the age-blackened Sorbonne,* the Paris college of letters, which was built for 10,000 students and now has 32,000. The Sorbonne has only 100 professors to do all the lecturing. It has only half a dozen seminar rooms; the 600 sociology students hold their seminars...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, adapted faithfully but rather ponderously from the short story by Carson McCullers, finds Playwright Edward Albee in middling-to-poor form. However, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and a remarkable actor-dwarf, Michael Dunn, give the evening moments of phantasmagorical vitality...
...Italian presence is ever more inescapable in modern-day Argentina. Statues of Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Columbus populate large urban plazas. Street names run from "Venecia" and "Milán" to "José Verdi" and "Arturo Toscanini." Newsstands are thick with Italian magazines, bars flow with Campari, coffee shops with café alia italiana, and restaurateurs serve up steaming hot pizzas, ravioli and pasta frolla-even if they cannot always spell the names. Argentine men favor Italian-style stovepipe trousers and moccasins; many women are forsaking French styles for designers like Simonetta and Pucci...