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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owned a newsstand and had read almost every Horatio Alger book. He switched to selling insurance at 16, and four years later started his own agency with $100 in capital. Remaining in debt to force himself to work hard, he recruited a group of 1,000 agents across the country by the time he was 30. In 1939 he founded a company that later became Combined...
...Warner, remembered from Morgan (see CINEMA color), and Diana Rigg, onetime heroine of ABC's The Avengers, play two of the lovers as hot-blooded, impulsive adolescents; they are supported by Michael Jayston, a four-year veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Helen Mirren, one of the group's youngest leading ladies, who is currently touring the U.S. in Much Ado About Nothing. Hall's fairies are earthy and dirty-faced. His Titania (Judi Dench) is frankly "wicked, sexy, and erotic," and appears throughout covered only by a few leaves, a degree of nudity unusual...
...came to be called buskers.* They were then best known for their obscene songs, but they gained respectability as they moved to the sidewalks and brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing but a disguised beggar...
...them no lies, that I was not one of the programmed society." Last year he spent a week with the experimental Living Arts Program in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools, teaching youngsters of different ages and talking to them about Viet Nam, rock, sex, pot, religion, race. To a group of music haters, he explained that Bach must have had a lot of sex to have 20 children. That kind of approach, says Hollander, at least jarred some of the kids out of their ennui. What is more, they usually stuck around to hear him play...
...AFTER midnight on a rainy Boston night in the fall. A small group of tired men sit in the living room of one of the nicer Ritz Carlton suites. They are smoking (cigars and cigarettes, but no pipes); they are sweating; and, if it is very late, they may be screaming at each other...