Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter. A man whose birthday it is not finds himself the guest of honor at its celebration and behaves as if he were a corpse at his own wake. Which well might be the case. The early Pinter puzzler is brought to the Broadway stage with American actors who often pay more attention to their accents than to their performances...
...number well over 150. Members will include the presidents of the sophomore and junior classes and basketball center Chris Thomforde. The new set-up will involve faculty as well. There will be a resident master and several associates, and plans for club-based courses and a lecture series with guest lecturers staying at the building...
...Yorker ran a respectful appreciation by Guest Critic Penelope Gilliatt, followed nine weeks later with an ecstatic 9,000-word analysis by another guest critic, Pauline Kael. In Chicago, the Tribune's reviewer sided with the naysayers. He called it "stomach churning": the American said it was "unappetizing." But the Daily News acclaimed it as one of the most significant motion pictures of the decade; the Sun-Times said it was "astonishingly beautiful." It seemed as if two different Bonnie and Clydes were slipping into towns simultaneously...
...well that he was invited back as Sir Basil in two succeeding Tarzan segments-and then it seemed as if every TV producer in Hollywood was after this new property. He appeared in guest shots on Daniel Boone, Red Skelton and Pat Boone's syndicated interview show. In high style, he played the heavy last week...
...features of Mayan and Oriental architecture, the yellow-brick stone-trimmed structure played host to visiting celebrities from Babe Ruth, Will Rogers and Albert Einstein to honeymooning Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. But even to its fans, the Imperial has always had its idiosyncrasies. Every one of its 230 guest rooms is different, an efficiency expert's nightmare, and Wright was apparently so struck by the smallness of things Japanese that he included glazed doors barely five feet high...