Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman, hinges on a duel in a loony bin, and the play seems almost as disturbed and disturbing as its setting. Ward Nurse Ratched (Joan Tetzel) is a kind of female Fu Manchu with incredibly sweeping authority. If a patient steps out of line, she punishes him with electric shock treatments...
Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism. Wasserman intends the insane asylum as a metaphor for the world. But instead of cracking sick jokes, he ought to have tried for outright theater-of-the-absurd. The play gains in tension what it loses in triteness by linking Nurse Ratched's oppression of the patients to her sexual repression of herself...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Joan Sutherland, Patti Page, Martyn Green, Maria Tallchief. Color...
Marriage Revealed. Joan Irvine Swinden Penniman Burt, 30, leggy great-granddaughter of Real Estate Man James Irvine and principal (21%) heiress to the 88,000-acre $500 million Irvine Ranch south of Los Angeles, site of the world's largest private civic development project now under way, designed by Architect William Pereira; and Morton Wistar ("Cappy") Smith, 47, Virginia country squire and champion show-horse trainer; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on Sept...
...Joan Tolentino as the mayor's wife was only to Schmidt in talent, and Laura did a job as the flighty daughter. Other the east, especially the town official, usually had one humorous bi-- a way of talking, etc--which began pale about the fifth time it was used...