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...commercial crap around here," said Stan Edelson, director of the Caravan Theatre. We sat across from each other in his basement office before Friday night's performance of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle as he talked about the formation of his semi-repertoire group. "We're interested in finding and performing the things that reach people," he told me in an almost inaudibly quiet voice. "It can be fucking or fighting or loving or hating: in that senses we're a political theatre...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: The Theatregoer The Caucasian Chalk Circle | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...occasionally had to work together in grocery stores, one buying something like a loaf of bread while the others tried to steal what they could. "We didn't have nothing to eat," Robbie explains. "And no money." One night, really desperate, Levon and Robbie decided to stick up a crap game with a pot that often ran to $7,000 or $8,000. With masks made of pillow cases they moved out on their mission ?only to find the game had broken up early and everybody was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

Anyway, with the help of these pills, this family has now escaped forever the sorrows of being black in America. As Gertrude, the mother, puts it, "I'll mince my way through Macy's and get thirty day credit. No-000000 one will give me crap...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: A Mindblow at the Loeb, A Farewell to the Sixties | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...lack of enthusiasm for each other's work. "If we didn't like something," Previn explains, "we'd say, 'It fits.' That's very polite, and it has the same result as if one of us said, That's a piece of crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Very Expensive Coco | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Crap Game. Undaunted, companies go right on turning out new products. Last week Honeywell introduced a $10,600 "kitchen computer" programmed to help the U.S. housewife plan her meals and balance her checkbook. Though Honeywell might sell some to millionaires who have everything, the product could be the precursor of much cheaper small computers for the home; other companies are already working on the idea. Singer recently announced that its Friden office-equipment division will bring out at least one new product a month for the next year. "Developing new products is like a gigantic crap game," says Boone Gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE GREAT RUSH FOR NEW PRODUCTS | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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