Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps Abbott picked the wrong play, or at least the wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally speaking, a much less effective cast. Lynn Milgrim, the Juno of this Juno, for instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly...
...Bayley family of pre-Revolutionary New York. Her father was a doctor, and her family was related to some of the great Dutch pioneer families-the Roosevelts and the Van Cortlandts; Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were close family friends. Raised as an Episcopalian, pretty Betty Bayley was a gay, open girl who loved dances and parties. At 19, she married William Magee Seton. heir to a New York mercantile fortune, in the biggest social event of the 1794 season. The Rt. Rev. Samuel Provoost, first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, officiated at the ceremony...
...many Germans, Ash Wednesday holds an extra measure of solemnity. It marks the end of the gay Fasching season, about the only time of the year when a middle-aged widower or a plain, bespectacled spinster can break out of the everyday litany of loneliness and-who knows? -find true love across a crowded beer hall. Of those who were still lonely as Fasching ended last week, many would not wait for next year's festivities; they will turn instead to one of West Germany's 200 marriage agencies, such as the booming "Institute for Elegant Individual Marriage...
...strange and beautiful object, worthy to be displayed like expensive jewelry against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless and weightless space, looked delicate, but when folded in the chrysalis position, it could take G forces that would crush that...
...Quare Fellow, based on the play by Ireland's Brendan Behan, is a funny tragedy, a happy-go-lucky horror show, a gay little wake for the dead who have died in the name of justice-the kind of justice that demands a life for a life. Like the play, the picture ignores the rational arguments against capital punishment. It simply takes its audience inside an Irish prison and bolts the gate; and then with a world of Irish charm and humor shows everybody round the dear old place, shows everybody how it feels to live in a cell...