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Word: guessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GUESS WHAT?). The Negro Ensemble Company seems to be forging a dubious tradition of brilliantly staging mediocre material. The intentions of Playwright Ray Mclver to make a cutting satire of black-white relations in the U.S. unfortunately outrun his wit. But the players, under the direction of Michael A. Schultz, endow this "minstrel-morality play" with a lively inventiveness and bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 3, 1969 | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...brilliantly staging mediocre material. Last season, the company managed to make interesting evenings out of two rather lumbering efforts from Africa - Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Kongi's Harvest. The play the Negro Ensemble offered last week lumbers out of dark est Georgia. God Is a (Guess What?) was written by Atlanta Schoolteacher Ray Mclver, whose intention was clearly to make a cutting satire of black-white relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Broadway: Play v. Players | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down what it is about. I don't know what it means. I guess that must mean I'm nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Fishhooks in the Memory | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Guess What?)--Ray McIver's play brought to life by the fine Negro Ensemble Company. At ST. MARKS PLAYHOUSE, 133 Second Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas in New York: The Plays to See | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...like these. A year and a half ago Hollywood's apparent but inconclusive degeneration could justify enough nervousness to take the time to carefully pull apart a God-awful film like Frankenheimer's Grand Prix; but these days it's harder to get mad and, as things stand, I guess Ice Station Zebra isn't all that bad. It has the potential for being a good picture, but hanging over it are the ghosts of rewrite, of producer Martin Ransohoff whittling away at anything individual, leaving a gutless synthetic: sure-fire product at the expense of originality. It will make...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Ice Station Zebra | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

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