Word: curtained
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...whose portrait hangs high on the wall in the Cavendish living room. The great Aubrey Cavendish never quit. He allowed himself time off from his work only once in his life, after finishing the last performance of his last tour, which was ending that night. He did all four curtain calls and only when the curtain had dropped for the last time did he allow himself to go backstage...
...member of Congress by virtue of a special election. He earned his degree years later, but still has not taken the bar examination. His style reminds people of Ted Kennedy and, like Kennedy, he still dresses in white shirts and blue suits, as if he must reaffirm his lace-curtain status...
...rain and the curtain come down, we are left to ask, "So what?" It's sentimental, but why dig up the Minutemen from obscurity? Because the parallel drawn between John Sterge and Charlie Finaly is not so absurd. The Minutemen demise provides a textbook example of what may be the Appomattox of professional sports...
Last week, after two years of preparation and backed by a budget of $200,000, Carte Blanche finally opened. What the raised curtain revealed, reported TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, was some parts that could be called cousins of Calcutta and others that amounted to "a granddaddy of a snappy nightclub revue, liberated to let a lot of old-fashioned smut happily hang out." In short, Carte Blanche works best when the 14-member cast has its clothes on. That turns out to be most of the time. True, the opening scene has them emerging frontally naked from behind shiny, plastic...
Your next best theatrical value is probably the Loeb Ex, mainly because it's free. You don't even have to trek all the way up to the Loeb the day before (as the ads suggest) to get tickets. Just get there half an hour before curtain, and stand in line. The Ex is so small that any seat is bound to be good...