Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second act when Gabey imagines Miss Turnstyles as an unobtainable socialite, surrounded by Ronald Searle-like caricatures of the rich. But for the most part this revival's spirits are too blithe. It strives for a simple-minded innocence when real recognition of the forties' blend of hell-bent pleasure and reluctantly perceived pain might instead give the show a genuine claim to poignance...
...think she should ask for more. Rounding out the trio is Phyllis Newman, a nice enough lady and a good enough trouper, but also somewhat miscast in this show full of ingenues. As for the men, well, the three are smooth-shaven and as enthusiastic as all hell, but so interchangeable that none is really outstanding...
...comeback trail. We're gonna kick the hell out of U-Mass and Providence," head cross country coach Bill McCurdy said last night...
...motto: "My tastes are the average person's tastes." After he approves a project-something he often does on the basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then if I don't like the results they get hell," he says. Certainly he leaves the finer points of culture to others. Once, when ATV was shooting an excerpt from The Master Builder, he asked an aide: "How's the Shakespeare coming along?" The aide murmured that it was Ibsen, not Shakespeare. "Well," said...
...radical book about the public schools in America. Its author, James Herndon, is a junior high school teacher describing his loose and open-ended classes in San Francisco, where his students choose how to spend their time in school. Herndon is not one of those new jargon-spouting teachers hell-bent on encouraging their youngsters' creativity with some or other technique they were exposed to, but never understood, in graduate school. Those teachers mistake novelty for innovation, and spend a good deal of their time contriving projects to stimulate their classes. Let the children choose, they say but only...