Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final problem with On the Town is that Comden and Green teamed up to write an unnecessarily slow second act, which gets bogged down in period parody of New York night clubs. A director can help the long night-club scene by pacing it almost out of existence. But this particular director has pacing problems which result from the long scene changes; there is no way of getting around the stage waits but a little more traveling music from the orchestra would help...
...does Percy. So does Rockefeller, who last year renounced presidential ambitions "forever." But as one G.O.P. leader observed recently, "Nobody ever made a Sherman-like statement except Sherman," and all three men would almost certainly accept the nomination. As Washington newsmen put it during last month's Gridiron Club dinner, in a song that was written with Rocky in mind but applies to all the naysayers...
...only hitch is players. Although there are 500 college and club teams in the U.S., few Americans are of professional caliber. As a result, the National League has been forced to woo players and coaches away from foreign teams with salaries up to $35,000. The Los Angeles Toros boast 15 players from 13 countries. Which creates still another problem: language. On the theory that "Pass me the ball!" in Spanish just might be fighting words in Swahili, most National League teams have adopted English as their "official" language, and the Pittsburgh Phantoms have temporarily farmed out their players...
...past two years, he has turned his surrealistic view of life into a light industry. After making his mark on the club circuit, he wrote and appeared in What's New, Pussycat?, which rang up one of the biggest box-office grosses ever (over $8.3 million) for a comedy movie. Then, in the Japanese-made film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, he collected $75,000 for supplying the dubbed-in dialogue that is totally alien to anything that is happening onscreen. In November, following a performance in the forthcoming Casino Royale, in which he ad-libbed...
...golf team won its first match of the year yesterday, clobbering Amherst, 7-0, and Tufts, 6-1, on the short and unchallenging Sagamore Country Club course in Lynnfield, the Jumbos' home layout...