Word: havoc
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...play bogs down when the focus shifts from this utter frivolity to a pretention of seriousness. There is twisted passion, a love triangle, a murder, an earthquake, havoc, destruction, despair, and, finally, incomprehensibility and boredom which Mr. Aaron's broad comic direction could do nothing to alleviate. There are no points made, no point of view maintained, and I have a suspicion that there were none intended. Mr. Houghton tries to be Pirandello, but perhaps because he is attempting to be fashionable, he cannot fuse the poetry of the language and the dramatic technique into a real and original point...
...proposed Harvard Student Agencies passport photo service is meeting strong opposition from Harvard Square photographers, who claim the agency "would raise havoc" with their business...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). With Sam Levene as Larry Fay, a Capone alumnus who muscled into a milk monopoly, and June Havoc as Sally Kansas, the sassy grande dame of Chicago speakeasies...
...Congo was certainly a shambles. The week began with the President firing the Premier and the Premier firing the President. For days, sphinxlike President Joseph Kasavubu had watched the havoc wreaked by Patrice Lumumba's turbulent decrees, had talked privately of plans to end the chaos, and hesitated. Finally, taunted by scornful party youth leaders, who threatened to withdraw their support. Kasavubu roared: "By God, I will...
...possessive Mom of Bye Bye Birdie, saw it: "I've never been a mother, so I wouldn't know what mothers are supposed to be like." Added Ethel Merman, offstage mother of two, who plays the self-serving, star-making mother of Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc: "Why, Jerry Lewis sat there one night after the show and cried for 15 minutes, and George Jessel cried too. To them, she was a sympathetic woman...