Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, Munger exploits them well. Most importantly, he keeps the show moving along at a brisk pace, crashing through gags that don't work until it comes to some that do. The plot is simple enough: Dionysus (Paul Cooper) want to resurrect a great poet to help Athens through a crisis. Accompanied by Xanthias, his slave (Walt Licht), he descends to Hades and presides over a debate between Aeschylus (John Allman) and Euripides (Tom Popovich). Aeschylus triumphs and returns to life, presumably to cure the city of its ills...
With only a few persons on stage, Munger is less successful. Part of the trouble is with Cooper and Licht, who simply make their parts too much alike for any kind of interplay to develop. Lack of contrast often kills the verbal sparring between the good-time-Charlie god and his sarcastic servant. And Munger has a perverse talent for hiding one actor behind another even when the small stage doesn't make it inevitable...
...them from swing districts that were won in the L.B.J. landslide. To preserve some aura of bipartisanship, COPE is expected to bestow its benediction on three old Republican Senate friends: New Jersey's Clifford Case, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
...little girl's near-tragedy were not enough, last week Brooklyn produced another LSD case with still more ominous implications. Mrs. Florence Cooper, 57, was found slashed to death in her apartment, and police called on her son-in-law, Stephen Henry Kessler, 30, for routine questioning. Kessler, the cops said, asked excitedly: "Did I kill my wife? Did I rape anyone? What have I done?" Then he added: "Man, I've been flying for three days...
Married. Maria Cooper, 28, willowy daughter of the late Gary Cooper; and Byron Janis, 38, Pittsburgh pianist lionized by the Russians during 1960 and 1962 tours; he for the second time; in Woodbridge, Conn...