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...94th Street Armory were torn down to make way for a new junior high school. The obvious answer was Central Park, but New Yorkers have come to regard the park as sacrosanct, have fiercely resisted any infringement, including even the philanthropic offer of Huntington Hartford to build a terraced cafe in one corner. The solution, as proposed by the competition-winning architectural firm of Kelly & Gruzen: bury the facilities underground. Key elements in the $5,700,000 scheme, which will leave 95% of the ten-acre site still land scaped: below-ground-level stables for 370 horses topped...
...Sixpence), but he was still a crucial step away from the ideal niche. When ProducerDirector Harold Prince came after him for Cabaret, he succumbed instantly. "Everyone thought it was a very chancy show," he says, "but I knew I wanted to take the gamble. The tawdriness and decadence of cafe life is something I know...
...orchestra played it. The little people in the cafe started to sing, drowning out the Germans. The Adams House juniors stood up in the middle of the Brattle floor and sang, too. Then the people in the balcony caught on and stood and sang. Then almost everyone else joined...
...armorial bearings in Brest (and a motto to match: "Love, Work, Suffer"), though he made no headway in claiming the barony that is said to go with the name. It is fortunate, too, for the reader, that Kerouac lost his own bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll my r's on my tongue...
...should be in the opening scenes. It may be that this petulance is the only way to make Berenger's lines work as well as they do, but I'm not convinced it is. Then, too, a good portion of Jean's badinage was lost in the cafe scene because it was never made clear to the audience that his remarks were meant to apply to a conversation at the next table and vice versa...