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...different way so you can think about yourself and how you perceive it." Children and museum guards tend to cluster in the corners to watch the on-the-air programming. Adults are variously befuddled, bemused or transfixed into playing trivia identification games ("Dammit, who was Jackie Gleason's wife in the original Honey-mooners?"). Some visitors consider the show out of place in a museum, but most have to admit that this is their life...
...International Longshoremen's Association, the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico counterpart of Bridges' I.L.W.U., expire Sept. 30. Union negotiators are demanding a guaranteed annual wage-an innovation in the seasonal shipping business that employers are hardly eager to grant. Nevertheless, says I.L.A. Boss Thomas W. Gleason, his members are prepared to wait "until hell freezes over...
...this thing breaks," muttered Jackie Gleason, gingerly hoisting his 225-Ib. bulk up a ladder, "the whole joint closes." On the rooftop of his "weird castle," Gleason clinked a teacup against beer cans held by construction workers and admired the traditional "topping-out" tree, signifying that exterior construction had been completed on his dream house near Fort Lauderdale. "We'll never get in before Christmas," he sighed. It will be worth the wait. Sprawling over five levels, Gleason's house has 14 rooms, "at least" five bars, and a price tag of $500,000. There are only...
...uncanny skill at catching the aesthetic potential in America's mass culture and at fusing pop dance with ballet. Slightly dated in its style, the dancing of PAMTGG seems to have been inspired by the sort of mock ballet once seen on the Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows. Somehow Balanchine can create grace out of tackiness and art out of kitsch. If nothing else. PAMTGG leads one to wonder what kind of magic he might work if his fancy were caught by a roller derby or a pro football game...
...This goal can best be attained by action of the deans," Gleason said. "I don't like the idea of the committee riding through the departments...