Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfortunate thing about it all is that Mr. Kirstein, who staged the Loeb production himself, has played up his weaknesses by a kind of epileptic direction. The small cast goes through its paces in a formal, costumed, slightly stiff historical drama way, and there's a fit: John Braden's lights and set start playing discotheque games and some refugees from a mine troupe start fooling around on the White House lawn, carrying ghosts on poles and setting off sparklers. Then these people pack up and we're back to chamber drama...
...DIRTY DOZEN. A World War II major (Lee Marvin) is ordered to transform twelve criminals and psychopaths from the camp stockade into a fighting unit fit for a suicide mission behind enemy lines. The denouement is loud and bloody...
With more than 45 dead in rioting across the nation last week, thousands injured, and upwards of $1 billion in cash and property losses, Americans groped for words to fit the failure. New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy called it "the greatest domestic crisis since the War between the States...
...deep play. At one sitting, however, it is a mess of moral contradictions sitting uneasily in a shaky plot. Shakespeare was a notoriously profound asker of questions and he asks some big ones in Measure for Measure: What price Chastity? Do the ends justify the means? Is one man fit to judge another...
...twin-engined Aero Commander, goes so far as to call his new job a "merger of avocation and vocation." Says Prescott of his new colleague: "This guy is a brain. He's gutsy too. He wants to swing, wants to do things." The way it sounds, Hoffman should fit right in at Flying Tiger...