Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also sought, and won, new audiences for theater. Professional theater was brought for the first time to small towns and rural America. Record numbers attended performances in larger cities. "Children's units" in many cities revolutionized children's entertainment; young Walt Disney was one who drew inspiration from Yasha Frank's Los Angeles performances. Groups like the Spanish unit in Florida and the "Negro units" in many major cities brought series theater to audiences who had been ignored and performers who had been stereotyped...
Directors were faced with that very question, and it forced them to be creative in answering it. Welles devised special comic roles and dances; Frank used a series of ex-vaudevillians in three-minute stints...
...good cartoon book is an oblong entirely surrounded by laughter. Among the merriest: Stop Trying to Cheer Me Up! by Frank Modell. One of the most versatile of The New Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a corkscrew) and domestic explosions (father to a small boy who has nailed his Christmas stocking upside down: "You call that hung by the chimney with care?"). The Book of Terns by Peter Delacorte and Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated...
...told the guys the first three minutes was gonna decide the game," Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin said Saturday night. "It set the tempo. They got the quick lead, and we had to play their game all night...
Across the hall, in the quiet Harvard locker room, Frank McLaughlin, looking sharp in a houndstooth blazer, is encouraging prospective freshmen, selling then on the merits of Harvard--the school and the future basketball power...