Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the delegates resisting pleas for adjournment. When they were finished, they had adopted a very liberal, semi-populist platform. The order in which the disputes were handled served party unity and party image: Wallace's package was considered first, and the more controversial items such as abortion and gay liberation were taken up well after midnight, when most of the nation slept...
...Wallace delegates were bug-eyed. There on the podium at the convention was a certified member of Gay Liberation nonchalantly addressing the party while a small claque cheered him on. "Goddam," said Jess Lanier, mayor of Bessemer, Ala., though the gay plank did not pass. "Goddam. If that's what they're going to talk about, we're never going to get this party together again. They haven't got a dog's chance of electing a President on this platform. Damn, do they need Wallace...
Died. Aline Saarinen, 58, art critic, newswoman and widow of Architect Eero Saarinen; from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. A former managing editor of Art News, Saarinen began her television career eight years ago as a correspondent on NBC's Today show. Handsome and gay, acerbic and outspoken, she was a refreshing commentator on a wide range of subjects on her own TV talk show, For Women Only, before NBC sent her to Paris in 1971 as the first woman bureau chief in television history...
...sonic dazzler. When Stravinsky conducted this music, he deliberately gave it a kind of squeeze-box accordion sound, as though trying to match the marionette-stage milieu of the puppet hero. Boulez's performance is much broader in both aura and atmosphere, as if his touchstones were the gay, extroverted Shrovetide Fair scenes that open and close the work. The approaches are opposed but, happily, of equal validity...
...Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht refined the characters that Gay created, while Kurt Weill provided a tart and tangy score that is one of the marvels of the musical theater. The juice of art and life, however, flows richly enough through the original Beggar's Opera. The dominant motif-Gay's as well as Brecht's-is that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy...