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...undermined drawing-room gentility and reinforced "the umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world." For ten years, starting in 1963, Tynan served as literary manager of Britain's National Theater under Director Laurence Olivier. He "devised" the 1969 Oh! Calcutta!, a series of skits devoted to simulated sex and unsimulated nudity. Having written about topics from bullfighting to ballet and from Charlie Chaplin to Truman Capote, he recently published Show People, which profiled several personalities (among them: Ralph Richardson, Johnny Carson) whom he would invite to "an ideal dinner party...
...have risen to 6.35 billion people from 4 billion in 1975. Most of this growth will be in the poorer, less developed countries (LDCs), mostly in their urban slums and shantytowns. Mexico City, already crowded with more than 10 million people, will swell to more than 31 million people; Calcutta will teem with nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing illness and misery may slow...
Like the censors who battled Oh Calcutta! and the judges who smothered Caligula, President Carter and Associates have been searching for a way to close the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's smash hit. An attempt to airlift the 53 performers en masse from the theater wings failed when a pulley strap of the deus ex machina snagged on a piece of scenery...
Mother Teresa, of Calcutta, Nobel-prizewinning missionary, asked if she does not become discouraged in her work with the destitute and dying: "God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful...
...rather looked as though the Raj had returned to In'ja. Once more the Union Jack fluttered over Delhi's posh Roshanara Club, while pukka sahib types bowled on the cricket pitch. The bar of the Calcutta Light Horse, a regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days...