Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks for the high-camp comic relief, "On Running New York" [Nov. 1]. The counterpoint of describing Lindsay laughing over a column on "pseudo intellectuals," and then having him quote Dickens and Yeats was inspired. For those of us who have heard hizzoner try to articulate without a script, this new-found eloquence came as a real surprise. Add a wife who sounds the dinner bell in French, sherry for lunch, and a picture of our boy John in tails at the Met, and you have the ingredients for a clever burlesque of J.F.K. and Jackie...
...Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp...
Peter Weiss' play Marat/ Sade was explicitly based on a cryptic plot suggestion by Artaud. As directed by Brook, it proved to be one of the most fecund works in the contemporary theater. The naked backside of Marat has turned the stage into a kind of auxiliary nudist camp. The tormented, writhing chorus of the inmates at Charenton popularized choreographic stage movement in straight plays, and the eerie sounds and gestures have become the language of antiword drama...
...resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...
...defender of such moves despite the Reserve Board's qualms, Camp argues that banks should be free to per form "any financial function that does not impair their solvency or liquidity." Fitting their plans to that prescription, bankers insist that because of their customers' changing needs they should have the power to offer more services related to banking. They envision affiliates for such activities as travel services, mutual funds, insurance, equipment leasing, bookkeeping and billing for other firms, and land development...