Word: hat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rome is old hat to gravel-voiced Ernest Borgnine, who has already made four films there. But for his two tykes, Sharon, 3, and Christopher, 2, with him during the filming of his latest, The Adventurers, everything was new and wonderful. "My kids are crazy about Italian spaghetti and ponies," said Ernie. "I always have to ask the pony man where he'll be or the kids get mad." All that, plus the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Villa Borghese have kept Papa hopping. For his taste, a movie star spends too much time away from home. When...
...Ronnie Davis, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, "to destroy the United States," That is the modest ambition of several groups of strolling players who consider themselves collectively to be proponents of "guerrilla theater," Performing on street corners or on flatbed trucks, earning their keep by pass-the-hat collections, these dramatic revolutionaries have but one purpose: to "radicalize" their audiences into action and rebellion, Recently, three of the best-known guerrilla organizations -the Mime Troupe, New York City's Bread and Puppet Theater and California's El Teatro Campesmo-gathered at San Francisco State College...
Since they cannot get grades abolished, staff members want a system "substantially separated from the student's performance in the course." This bit of euphemistic phrasing means a nonsense or random grading system: pulling grades out of a hat or giving everyone in a section the same grade. Individual sectionmen have been surreptitiously deviating from the merit grading system for years. But now the 148 sectionmen have brought the whole issue into the open...
Whatever the category, Four in a Hat seems to have a way of producing wondering, self-exploratory conversations. "It is like being married," said one hat wearer. "No," replied another. "It is more like being tied with the same umbilical cord." "Do you feel you have to participate?" one hat wearer asked his neighbor last week. "Yes," she replied. "Otherwise I'll lose my hat." "Lose my hat!" repeated Byars with delight. "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard...
...floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes a far less interesting shape." Alas, when Byars first staged the event last week, he waited in the cockpit of the airplane, clad only in a Navajo hat, a red loincloth and black socks carefully held up by red silk garters. About 50 people came to join him, but all remained fully clothed. Manhattan may be ready for psychosculpture, but not, it seems, for psychosculpture...