Word: gated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most poisonous pen on Broadway is wielded by Critic John Simon. Reviewing the new play Nellie Toole & Co. in New York magazine, Simon dipped into strychnine to describe the star, Sylvia Miles, 41, as "one of New York's leading party girls and gate-crashers." Streperous Sylvia, who was acclaimed as the prostitute in Midnight Cowboy, wasted no time talking back. Invited to the same New York Film Festival party as Simon, she piled her plate with pat, steak tartare, brie and potato salad and dumped it over him. "Now you can call me a plate crasher...
...learned much of his craft at the Last Chance, and the take from the gate paid part of his tuition. Playing at the club gave him an opportunity to develop an easy stage rapport. "I consider working with audiences an education," he said. "You have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...
...promise of doing a full month of hard training before the match. There were too many blondes to squeeze, too many reporters to hustle, too many products to hawk (TIME cover, Sept. 10). In the days before the match, Riggs skylarked around Houston, trying to build up the gate and have some laughs. He beat Dr. Denton Cooley, the noted heart surgeon (the purse: $100 and a free medical checkup, in which Riggs got high marks). He played one of his handicap farces with a Memphis shoe salesman, picking up a fast $100, and then took $300 in a swift...
While George Johnson, the picket leader at the central gate of the Hamtramck plant, charged that Chrysler had no respect for the union any more, picketers on the line at the gate next door were arguing that they had no union. The validity of that assessment is questionable, but it is clear that workers are not unified...
...first trauma came at the gate. The Brown athletic department's assistant director of sports informations wanted to confiscate my camera. "You can't take that camera in there," he said. "Yes I can't." "No you can't." "Why not?" Because the coach doesn't want anyone spying on his team. "Who would want to spy on the Brown football team?" "Now listen you, you can't take that camera in there." I gave him my camera. Fifteen minutes later, I was sitting in the 61st row on the home-field side of the stadium. I felt a hand...