Word: contest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by Elaine May with a crisp and zany comic flair. Adaptation, written by Miss May, is the game of life staged like a TV contest with the contestants hopping from one huge checkerboard square to another. Gabriel Dell, in a performance that is laugh-and letter-perfect, is the hero who plays the adaptation game from birth to death. Terrence McNally's Next features James Coco, fortyish, fat and balding, as a potential draftee called up for his physical examination. Coco gives an enormously funny and resourceful performance in McNally...
...such fighting was merely meant as a reminder by the Communists that they were still in the contest after months of quiescence, it was a costly one-even if the estimate of 6,500 Communist dead proves exaggerated. The question remained as to whether Hanoi had finished making its point-and testing Nixon's resolve-or whether it was just beginning an even bloodier trial than the all-encompassing Tet offensive of a year ago. No one, in Washington or in Saigon, disputes the fact that the Communists have the strength to launch such a drive-if they...
...emancipated and emancipating 20th century-a bright and determined Vassar girl in a Jeep. Neither the girl nor the town has ever been quite the same since. For between Ann Cornelisen and "Torregreca," the false name under which she has concealed the town's identity, a foreordained contest of wills took place. Chronicling this confrontation, the author might have been expected to produce another bumptious account (subtitle: The Triumph of Progress) of New World ways v. Old World meanies...
...Harvard freshman basketball team ended a successful season by downing Dartmouth, 106-100, in a tight contest Tuesday night at Andover...
...contest, rescheduled from Feb. 15 after the Princeton team came down with impetigo, matches two young teams in what must be rated as one of the closest Ivy matches of the year...