Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This past December they did, and early last month the new curtain time went into effect. Despite the league's enthusiasm, early evidence suggests that the 7:30 plan made little financial difference. A comparison of last January's gross receipts with this January's shows only a negligible change. But there are other, intangible benefits...
...habits, but the audiences-probably for the better. "It reminds me of London," says Carol Channing, star of Four on a Garden. "The audience is not overstuffed, overfed, and can enjoy the play more. People laugh better on empty stomachs." Maureen Stapleton (The Gingerbread Lady) looks beyond the closing curtain: "I love the 7:30 curtain. It gives me more time for parties afterwards...
Agonized Awakening. Until the revolt occurred, Yugoslavia seemed the Iron Curtain country least likely to give Stalin ideological trouble. Its tightly knit, fiercely dogmatic Communist Party worshiped Stalin as the father of Communism and the leader of the resistance to fascism. At first, after World War II, few Yugoslav Communists could bring themselves to believe that Stalin's aim was simply to take over their nation. Much of Dedijer's book deals with the agonized awakening to the Russian threat. He describes, for example, his own change of heart at a Russian-Yugoslav soccer match...
...urging friends to sell their homes and move into the ghetto, sending students down South, where brother Philip was teaching in an all-black New Orleans high school, to work with CORE. On a 1963 trip to Europe, Daniel became fascinated by the catacomb Christians he met in Iron Curtain countries. He returned lean and ascetic in a breezy new uniform?a black turtleneck sweater, ski jacket and beret...
...deceased dragon. "Must we die?" asks one. "You have already been dead a long time," Hans replies Then he instructs the animals to sew the dragon closed "so that all the lackeys who crept in will forever remain inside." As the animals bury the dragon, an iron curtain falls across the stage...