Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undeniably true that Dream is an unusually eclectic work, drawing its material from Plautus, Plutarch, Ovid, Apuleius, Chaucer, French romance, Italian commedia dell'arte, a couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four classes of people from supernatural beings down to manual laborers. And on this work he lavished lots of his loveliest language...
...attempts, David Merrick had four flops, including the musical adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Still, there were many sellout holdover hits (Mame, Cactus Flower among others) and enough intriguing fresh attractions to build an all-time high Broadway gross of $55 million, up 2% from the season before. Among the high spots were: one major S.R.O. smash, the musical Cabaret; two comedy clicks, Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; one important drama, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which...
When the zoo opened recently, cages seemed necessary after all-for the children. A first-day mob of more than 15,000 of them, fresh out of school and impatient after long delays at the gates, tore the place apart. They smashed hatching quail eggs, hurled rocks at the ducks, dropped baby turtles on their backs, pounded away on the shell of the Aldabra tortoise. A Nubian goat bleated in agony as it was pulled from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four...
...Fresh Talent, Fresh Ideas. Even fond admirers of Griswold are now willing to concede that Yale during the postwar years did not always live up to its reputation, tended to tolerate aristocratic old-timers at the expense of first-rate professional scholarship. Convinced that Yale...
...woman is awakened by labor pains. She arouses her husband (Josef Abrhám) and begins to recall their first meeting, the affair that followed, the marriage. Abrhám, a television repairman, takes her to the hospital, then goes on his rounds, gazing at the young with the fresh insight of a new father. In one sequence, as he watches schoolchildren make a game of an airraid drill, his mind-and the camera-recall the real thing, complete with screaming jets and exploding bombs...