Word: dell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expansion of the play within a play device, Wayward Saints concerns a trouble-prone Commedia dell'arte troupe which tries to stop quarrelling long enough to earn passage money home. The players, who have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second...
...would think that a philanthropist deserved the right to give his money, then sit back and take some small satisfaction in the pleasure it provides others. Or, if he prefers, just forget about it. Not in New York City. Millionaire George T. Delacorte (Dell Publishing Co.) financed an Alice in Wonderland sculpture for Central Park, then watched vandals assault it. He spent thousands on the mechanical animals that twirl in the park's zoo clock tower-and then much more on crews to repair the almost weekly breakdown of the machinery...
Williams, who spoke last night at Carpenter Center, will direct Dealing for Warner Brothers: He co-authored the screenplay with F. Michael Crichton '65 and David O'Dell...