Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Finally, I just got bored," says Baker. "I had done enough reporting. I began to feel like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, carrying that typewriter in one hand and that suitcase in the other and a dirty old raincoat into one more hotel lobby. It came to seem that this wasn't a worthy way for a grown man to spend his life. You have good seats, sure, but you're always on the sidelines. You're not making anything. Auden has a wonderful essay?it's in The Dyer's Hand?about how young people want...
...instance, written a column of too familiar TV listings ("5:00, Ch. 3: Enough is Enough/Audrey falls for a swinging swimming pool cleaner and the twins disapprove"), rationalized rape ("Men who dress provocatively are asking for it"), and once dared to dismiss Barry Manilow as "the Mitch Miller of the '70s." Recalls White: "It's been a couple of years since so many nasty letters ended up on my desk. The last time it happened was shortly after I suggested that Queen Elizabeth be named the Best Dressed Woman of 1952. That...
...weak wine with water. All over the East Coast this summer, and perhaps even in less benighted regions for all I know, ostensibly sane people are turning up at parties and ordering water. What is even more curious, they ask for imported water. American water isn't good enough for them...
Despite the success stories, doctoring is often not enough. Composer Jule Styne believes that great hits-My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line-were great from the start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...
Despite the desperation surrounding a play in trouble, doctors have strict rules of courtesy. "The first thing you find out is if the author knows that someone is being brought in," says Larry Gelbart (Sly Fox), whose efforts on Ballroom were not enough to keep it from closing. "You owe that to a colleague." Jerome Robbins notes ruefully, "I've needed help...