Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright and the first Negro to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play of the Year Award, which she received for Raisin in the Sun. She died of cancer six years later in 1965, while her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, was running. To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which opened last week at Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater, is a warm, loving tribute to her, put together from her own writings - journals, letters, snippets of plays...
Several years ago I underwent throat surgery to remove a cancer. The operation was a complete success but it left me with some hoarseness which makes me sound like a cross between Ev Dirksen and Andy Devine...
...bizarre idea for peeling sheep occurred to Geneticist Clair E. Terrill while he was studying the results of experiments with anti-cancer drugs. In tended to halt the growth of cells in malignant tumors, the drugs were also found to interrupt cell growth in the hair roots of test animals - including sheep - causing them to lose their hair temporarily...
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients. Balancing taste and excruciating intimacy, the camera team now details the last days and thoughts of Albro Pearsall, 52, a Manhattan gold smelter dying of lung cancer...
...redeem the movie by going topless-coyly and briefly-but her mascara-scorched eyes and flaccid acting make her seem as if she had gone sleepless since her last picture. The dubbed voice of that fine character actor. Jack Hawkins, limited to esophageal speaking since his operation for throat cancer two years ago, is thin, out-of-sync and does not remotely resemble his distinctive rasp. Even Chato, the Indian chief, is misplayed. The part was given to Woody Strode, a Negro ex-football star for the Los Angeles Rams. He speaks, and looks, like a redskin in blackface...