Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SECOND--SPACE GEM is actually much better place that the seems--a good hunch...
Albee's play has packed every performance since; it still touches off the same responses. To American eyes, the Czechs give Albee's Westchester an oddly Viennese aspect; the impression is compounded of walnut-and-fringed-lamps Gemütlichkeit and the beard of the leading actor, which makes him look exactly like Sigmund Freud. But the play in Prague compares well with productions elsewhere. It is done with subtlety and panache as well as political relevance. These also happen to be the chief characteristics of Prague's extremely vital and varied theater...
...kiss two girls at one time?" An obsessive amateur astronomer and encyclopedic hobbyist, he spent a recent afternoon trying to send a white mouse soaring into the sky from a New Hampshire field in a do-it-yourself two-stage rocket. Other interests over the years have included gem cutting, watch repairing, owning 60 sports cars, writing a novel he now hopes will never be published, and training talking birds to say: "Birds can't talk." Throughout, Garroway never really lost his appetite for his intellectual brand of video...
...Much Ado. Just as Shakespeare needed the experience of writing the inferior Love's Labour's Lost before he could produce this middling play, he had to write Much Ado and the similarly middling As You Like It before he was able to follow them up with the miraculous gem he called Twelfth Night. Still, Gill and his charges had me believing for a stretch of two-and-a-half hours that Much Ado is really a good play--and that is no mean achievement...
...SURREY has all the speed, SMILE GLAD was second last time out, SPACE GEM is under care of the leading trainer...