Word: exiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fast Exit. "To do what we did on the Forum," adds Architect Luckman, "would have been impossible in New York." He should know, since he is also the architect for New York's new Madison Square Garden Sports and Entertainment Center, part of a $150 million construction project that has presented problems of both space and timing. To make room for the new Madison Square Garden, the fourth in the city's history, as well as an adjacent 29-story office building, the superstructure of cavernous Pennsylvania Station had to be demolished and all its facilities moved underground...
Watching them with innocent eyes is a theatrical amanuensis (Barbara Parkins) who soon learns that the room at the top has no exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself...
...instance, no male between the ages of 15 and 27 may go because of "military service obligations." This regulation also holds many older Cubans back because they do not wish to leave their children. No technicians may leave. Once a person employed by the state applies for an exit visa he loses his job. The long wait--without work--deters many. When they do leave, all their property is forfeited to the government. And the sign at Veradero Airport reminds those who step aboard their planes that "He who forsakes the fatherland will never again be permitted to return...
...friends of Benton and Newman who had never done a movie before-procrastinated. The film was supposed to take place in summer, they argued, and this was winter. Godard abruptly cooled on the subject. "All they can think of is meteorology," he complained, and flew back to Paris. Exit Godard...
...case, they decided to judge for themselves. The twelve men (the judge had barred all women) spent two days reading Exit, ultimately agreed with Prosecution Witness George Catlin, a former professor at Canada's McGill University, who said: "I can't imagine anything being obscene if this book isn't." The question that now arises for England is how many other modern works might fail a test by jury...