Word: casing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Hair, America's first tribal love-rock musical, opened two years ago, t was thought by many to be merely a passing fancy. Not so. Now it is a case of Hair, there and everywhere. So prolific has the show become, in fact, that t is difficult to find a spot in the world where Hair isn't sprouting...
...frequently mistaken for caricatures. Caricature goes to reality for a model, but Coward's people exist outside reality. They are stage originals. In this sense, the casting of Private Lives is just about perfect. Brian Bedford seems like a man who would be naked without his cigarette case, whose cigarettes, in fact, appear to be smoking him, as if he were an afterthought of his own props. Tammy Grimes seems not born of woman, but rather like a creature conjured up at a séance by some zany medium. She delivers lines as if they were exquisitely amusing...
Unthinkable Rate. A strong case can be made that the Government is overdoing its credit tightness and that the time has come for a change. Last week, however, a Federal Reserve official said that the board is persisting with its year-old policies. Interest rates reached yet another new high when an issue of top-rated Bell Telephone System bonds sold at 9.1%. Such a rate would have been unthinkable not long ago. The U.S. may be entering an unprecedented, fairly prolonged period of high interest rates...
...weekends, Nader hitchhiked out of town?just to see the U.S.?and learned, among many other things, that trucks were not built the way he and truck drivers thought they should be. For instance, a coat hanger in some truck cabs could puncture a driver's skull in case of an accident. He graduated magna cum laude and won a Phi Beta Kappa...
...just that discontinuity that Hind seeks to solve, finally turning away from the kidnap because he realizes that if he continues, he will have to use his friends as means, presenting them as exhibits in his case against the world. Instead, he resolves to start all over by pursuing them as ends in themselves -tracing out the lost person in each one, until the crime is uncovered and the child in each is freed...