Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk turns to sex. Hirst reveals that he had seduced Spooner's wife and enjoyed her as his mistress, while Spooner makes some equally jarring sexual revelations. Then, Spooner makes an eloquent and persuasive case for his staying on as Hirst's personal secretary. As the curtain falls, it looks as if an edgy ménage à quatre has been formed...
...want to find the most valuable hoopster playing basketball at Harvard, you might be well advised to stroll on past the varsity workout at the IAB and take a peak through the curtain to the court where the freshman team practices...
...Green Curtain. Armchair psephologists might have expected more of the network anchors, who crammed for the event as if it were a bar exam. Walter Cronkite, who for four years had been squirreling away newspaper clippings and other relevant nuggets of information, went into semi-seclusion weeks ago. Every day he would pull a loden green curtain across the glass windows of his CBS Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports...
...pound collapse; the show must go on. And so it did, as Queen Elizabeth opened Britain's new $30 million National Theater in London. The star of the official curtain raising: Actor Laurence Olivier, 69, who founded the National Theater Acting Company in 1962, and who appeared onstage to thank "all relevant councils, committees, boards and departments, indeed, Your Majesty's treasury, not to speak of our brother and sister taxpayers." Olivier, who has recently forsaken his own stage career (but not films) after battling a strength sapping muscle disorder, finished his speech by wishing to those...
During the last of many curtain calls last weekend, I watched Sam Levine bend down to kiss Eva Le Gallienne's hand. As he did, she leaned forward and lightly kissed his forehead--a gesture which seemed inadvertently to sum up all the grace and charm of Burry Fredrik and Sally Sear's production of The Royal Family. At the bottom of the first page of the Playbill it says, "The Kennedy Center--Xerox Corporation American Bicentennial Production." I still don't know what that means, but if it means that we have 1976 to thank for bringing this show...