Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gian-Carlo Menotti had good reason for counting every patron. For production in the close academic air of Columbia University, he had composed a compact little two-act opera called The Medium, and it had gone on Broadway. It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and consequently goes mad. It was hardly a cheery subject; moreover, it was all 'opera. Every line and word was sung, and its music yielded nothing...
...Consul, Menotti's first three-acter, has a plot that is just as drab as The Medium's: the story of a desperate woman in a police state who commits suicide when her last attempt to get a visa fails. It is longer and not so compact, but it packs more than The Medium's share of melodramatic punch. It opened on Broadway with a $100,000 advance sale; by last week all seats were sold out through June...
...wave of applause was rolling slowly up the hillside with Kee Young Ham. Compact, muscular, dead-pan, he ran easily in his white trunks and jersey, staring in front of him, apparently ignoring the shouted messages from the sedan. He was gone as quickly and unobtrusively as he had come. The boys with the water followed, and craning our necks we could see the Korean dousing his head. After he had passed, everything was exactly as it had been a moment before, and it seemed much too long before the second runner, Yun Chil Choi, slipped by in another formal...
...drinks 21 cups of coffee a day, all made in a Cory coffeemaker. One afternoon last week, Jim Alsdorf bubbled with excitement as he showed off another product which can be used after each cup is emptied. It is the "Cory Made Maid," a 23-lb. electric dishwasher, compact enough to fit on the kitchen drainboard, cheap enough ($89.95) to undersell most existing electric models by more than 50%. With it, chipper Jim Alsdorf cockily predicted that he would revolutionize the home-dishwasher market...