Word: exit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played 250 funerals so far, and the most cherished of his eulogies he has included in two of his anthologies. Who can ever forget what he said at Fanny Brice's bierside: "Now my hands fasten to my heart in lament for this all-too-soon exit from the scene. But the great Playwright of this ever-beginning, never-ending plot, the Master Director who so skillfully stages this tightly woven, disconnected spectacle of tragic nonsense, has planned it otherwise." Or at Jolson's (whom he disliked intensely): "I am proud to have basked in the sunlight...
...Perry Submarine Builders, Inc., and Ocean Pioneer Edwin Link, the PLC4 will be "flown" under water by means of helicopter-like propellers at the stern and overhead. It will take two crewmen and two scuba divers to a maximum depth of 1,500 ft., where the divers can exit to the water from a pressurized compartment, returning to live aboard...
...middle and an end is a thing of the past. It presupposes the leisure time of a leisure class, the idea of steady evolutionary progress and the information speed, as Marshall McLuhan has pointed out, of a railway system. Great Expectations epitomizes a 19th century mood, just as No exit reflects a 20th century mood. The well-made play assumes that everything is a problem capable of solution, as in a detective story...
...routine, whereby the air conditioning in a club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer's exit, the orchestra breaks into a fast "bright four" tempo that compels the listeners, whether they want to or not, to applaud briskly in rhythm with the music...
...Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral through September 11. Reviews of the Festival's other three productions will appear in the next issues. The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes under three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Route 91 bypass and either Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway or Exit 32 from the Connecticut Turnpike. Performances tend to begin promptly at the designated hour. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers.) final scene, when Falstaff appears with a saffron cloth tied on his stick to hail and cheer the prince-becomeking, only to be banished...