Word: gym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three characters are grafted to this landscape. An aging (29) lightweight, lush and former local contender, Billy Tully grieves over his split with his wife, who occupies his flophouse dreams and gives him a convenient excuse for not fighting. Then one day, finding himself in a Y.M.C.A. gym, he meets Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old would-be welterweight and sends him to his own long-suffering ex-manager, Ruben Luna. This should be some sort of beginning. But the three are going precisely no place. Tully dries out for one more fight. He wins-but finds his victory meaningless...
Died. Lou Stillman, 82, tough-talking, cigar-chewing patriarch of Stillman's Gym, for 38 years a monument to the prizefight game; in Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera-among thousands of others-worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike -bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive...
...playfulness of Shaw's vision in the early parts. As the play draws on, however, the production stretches a bit thin. By the time the curtain rises on the dancing children of the 320th century, in Part 5, it appears that evolution has led to a Swedish gym class in a grove of neon tubes...
...keeping, with Kahn's playground concept, Karl Eigsti has designed a large frame with a tall swing suspended at the stage-right side and a sort of jungle-gym at stage-left. Then there are some red mental barrels, used now to sit on, now to pound on, now to warm cold hands over...
...Davy in 2 Henry IV was Justice Shallow's servant and not Falstaff's). When the Boy is left alone with a field of corpses, he slowly wanders about, deeply, shaken and unhardened by his hands. Espying the approach of two enemy French soldiers, he scampers up the jungle-gym. But the soldiers pursue and overtake him, coldly spear him, and depart leaving one more corpse on the silent stage. None of this is specified, but it is deeply affecting...