Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were crossing the Memorial crossroads in front of the Gulf station, they spied a short man with a rubber face walking from the direction of Central Square and whistling very quickly. He had on a grey newsboy's cap and a Harvard sweatshirt. Under his arm he carried an armful of newspapers. The path of the newsboy (who was no boy at all but at least 46) and the path of the three students intersected near Lewando...
...student, and whistled down the street. When somebody else unfolded the paper the headline did not relate to Secretary McNamara, nor did any story on the front page. The headlines were not even clear. It occurred to the three students, almost at once, that the man with the grey cap and the Harvard sweatshirt was in some way illegal...
Although it does not call for star billing, the part is one of the strongest and most complex on Broadway, and Grey treasures it as if it were a long-awaited inheritance. With his wife Jo, he has worked out a gradually intensifying makeup scheme that transforms his face from mere decadence at the outset to a gaping death's head by the end. In the desperate name of gaiety, he paws the girls, dons tights and wigs to join the chorus line, and dances with an all-but-naked fake gorilla...
Take a Chance. Still baby-faced under his makeup at 34, Grey looks knowingly at Cabaret's world. "I've been there," he says. Son of a successful vaudevillian named Mickey Katz, Joel clicked with a cabaret routine while still in high school in California. In his teens he was a headliner at such high-priced playrooms as New York's Copacabana, Miami's Fontainebleau, Hollywood's Mocambo, and the London Palladium. "At that time," he recalls, "I would do almost anything to find a niche for myself. I had a bleeding ulcer...
Race & Results. Fewer and fewer child-seeking parents have to patronize the "grey market"-that is, to bypass the formal agencies and deal with a doctor who delivers an illegitimate child. The costs run from $1,000 to $2,000; the adoptive parents usually pay the mother's hospital bills, plus a lawyer's fees for drawing up legal adoption papers. "Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications. If, as often happens, the natural mother knows...