Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the production works-as it does, for the most part, brilliantly-is the result of the triangulated talent: the real Lenny Bruce's savage eloquence, the dynamism of Actor Cliff Gorman in the title role, the high theatrical imagination of Director Tom O'Horgan. The script by Julian Barry draws largely from Bruce's original material...
...understand her, makes the book come alive, makes it a book about individual people instead of mere social criticism. Keyes' position-caught between two generations-is similar to Caulfield's, but where Salinger's hero of the fifties wanted to spend his life at the edge of a cliff keeping the children from going over, Keyes, a hero of the seventies, finds himself dragged over the cliff and out of the rye field into the uncertainty on the other side. Instead of stopping Punch from going over, he is dragged over with...
...Horgan's Lenny uses Bruce, played by Cliff Gorman, as a symbol to illustrate how America silences her rebels. Abetted by elaborate theatrical masques and imaginative staging, Lenny attempts to be a frenzied morality play, acting out Bruce's wildest fantasies and using his own words. Says Playwright Julian Barry, who played in a band that accompanied Lenny in the '50s: "To me the whole play is like Lenny's day in court." Adds O'Horgan: "I want to tell people something about this guy who kept trying to tell the truth. Some...
After buzzing New York harbor in a helicopter with a delegation of state and local officials that included Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay, President Nixon made points last week with city cliff dwellers and conservationists by calling for the creation of a Gateway National Recreation Area in the vicinity of the harbor. It was a curious meeting of three Republicans who rarely agree with one another on much of anything. But Nixon's political purpose was not to mollify his fellow Republicans. Rather, by making the chopper tour, he deftly took the headlines away from a possible...
Cornell coach Cliff Stevenson was bewildered yesterday as he tried to explain his team's loss to Cornell. Despite out-shooting the Big Red, 50-31, Brown lost by eight goals. "I was quite upset by the officiating in the first half, and we had six piped shots," Stevenson said...