Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offerings, published tidings that Mother is having heavy going onstage right now as the ideal of every red-blooded American boy and girl. In five dramas now seething in Manhattan, Mom is depicted as a mean lady, a monster, or absolute family nemesis. The quintet: Bye Bye Birdie, Five Finger Exercise, Gypsy, Toys in the Attic, Once Upon a Mattress. Interviewing some of the stage mothers involved, the Trib also learned that any actress can forgive herself for playing an unsympathetic role. As Kay Medford, the all-possessive Mom of Bye Bye Birdie, saw it: "I've never been...
...would even cut short his June visit to Russia to return to Washington and fight for his budget. After posing for press pictures with his breakfast guests on the north portico of the White House, the President turned to Illinois' Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, wagged a finger, and publicly laid down a challenge to congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President did not need majorities in Congress; all he needed was one-third of the votes plus one vote, in either the Senate...
...Hayley's father, John Mills, is a well-known British cinemactor (Great Expectations, Tiger Bay); her mother, Mary Hayley Bell, is a successful British playwright (Men in Shadow, Duct for Two Hands); her 18-year-old sister, Juliet, is now playing on Broadway in Five Finger Exercise...
...Five-Finger Exercise. One of the Broadway season's few well-written plays is the work of British Playwright Peter Shaffer, who nearly kills an outsider by shoving him into the deadly crossfire of a devastatingly ordinary and unhappy family...
...Five Finger Exercise. A quite ordinary British family implodes with suppressed hate, nearly killing an innocent bystander...