Word: donuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also worked on sense awareness. One day I told the group to be a donut. They spent a long time just standing in a circle until they began to understand doneness. Then we took bites away by having people leave the room, and we tried to understand at what point the donut stopped being a donut. Then I had them be the hole, then try to understand the difference between a jelly donut and a glazed donut. If you can understand how to convey 'donut' theatrically, you can play any character. Also we tried to understand what nonverbal communication means...
...they like to keep pretty much to themselves over there. They are very excellent people and have their own clubs and organizations. On the right hand side is Horti-cultural Hall where we have our flower shows. There on the right you see a typical supermarket and a donut store. Donuts are the local rage." Then the Sunglassed Voice told ancedotes about some Midwestern ladies who discovered the local rage and spent their entire vacation taking tours and eating donuts...
...measure of their success, Boston College recently opened a permanent Center for the Study of Franchise Distribution. It is being underwritten by 200 firms, including Lapin's Pancake Houses, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Carvel ice cream, Mister Donut of America, Inc., Western Auto, Midas Mufflers and Chicago's A to Z Rental, which rents everything for the home from axes to zaxes (a special cutter for roofing tiles...
Melding Big & Little. Franchising has grown, its backers say, because it nicely melds the know-how of big businessmen with the drive and ambition of little businessmen. Harry Winokur, board chairman of both Mister Donut and the new Boston College center, moved from little to big through franchising. Winokur opened one Donut shop, slowly added six more. "I wanted to expand," he says, "and I didn't have enough money." Winokur decided to license other businessmen to run his shops, now oversees 230 of them, with 45 more about to open. Big Sheraton Hotels chose franchising...
UNITED STATES. Charles Luckman designed a massive blue-green beauty that sits like a big square donut on four pylons. The movies inside are a little less impressive. Voyage to America depicts waves of immigrants hitting the shores, a Cineramic ride glides past a 130-screen montage of U.S. history, and a narrator tells of some problematic feats ("You didn't like the mountains, so you reared them up in skyscrapers...