Word: couchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luigi Pirandello's A Dream (Yet Perhaps Not) is a very strange play indeed. The scene opens on a woman asleep on a couch, with her lover standing over her. The strange light tells us she is dreaming. In a sequence of short scenes, we see the history of her liason with the man. Finally she wakes, her lover arrives, and they play a short scene together. I do not think the play really works, for no present-day audience is prepared for the stopped action, odd lighting effects, or the projection of a movie on the cyclorama that Pirandello...
Part of Goldwater's appeal is his undeniable personal magnetism. To teenagers his chief attraction may be his image as jet pilot, ham radio operator and driver of a flashy sports car, but his voting-age admirers couch it in more substantial terms-integrity, honesty and courage. Even his quick-draw, shoot-from-the-hip tendency has its defenders. "Truman shot from the hip," says Virginian Walter Conklin, a magazine production manager. "Kennedy did it against U.S. Steel. I think it's a very human frailty...
...economists' terms, furniture has traditionally been a "postponable purchase"-people often put off buying a new chair, couch or bedroom set until the old one broke down, seldom bought on impulse. Lately, there has been a shift of sorts: Americans are inclined to trade in their old furniture somewhat sooner, buy more and more new furniture than in years past. Last week, at their annual summer show in High Point, N.C., the seat of the industry, the nation's furniture manufacturers puffed up their earlier predictions for 1964. On the basis of a notably strong first half, they...
...HENRY J. COUCH Chicago...
...worst moments of her life occurred two years ago when she was the adolescent in the Broadway production of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover. Opening night, her slip came loose and began to make its way to her ankles. She waddled around behind a couch and stepped out of it, sure that the audience had not noticed. When she came back out again, the audience exploded with applause. Even her embarrassments draw raves...