Word: kit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plumpish, thigh-bared, black-gartered allure of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. Add a living link to the period in Weill's widow, Actress Lotte Lenya, with her cynical eyes and big-city-scarred voice. Set this musical by committee in a chic-sleazy nightspot called the Kit Kat Klub, supply a rouged M.C. played with androgynous guile by Joel Grey, bring on hip-roiling, braless chorines with soft-boiled smiles and any kind of love for sale, orchestrate it all to the flesh tones of insinuative tenor saxes, and the atmosphere is complete...
...least credible presumption of Cabaret is that the dance floor of the Kit Kat Klub portrays a civilization goose-stepping its way to disaster. If the Kit Kat Klubs fostered Hitler, whatever will the Bunnies spawn...
...servicemen overseas, stores have been doing a brisk business in gifts ranging from toilet kits to packages of fruit, cheese and nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...
...Boston, Harvard students planned a series of lights-out beer busts. For stay-at-homes, a chain of New York novelty shops offered a kit containing 50 "I Was There" buttons and a candle. Most of the 30 million Americans who lived through history's biggest blackout a year ago this week approached the first anniversary of The Night with a certain nostalgia. The memory also prompted a more practical concern. What, if any thing, has been done to prevent another failure on the scale of the 1965 eclipse that plunged...
Less helpful are such aids as the Milton Bradley Co.'s Modern Mathematics Kindergarten Kit, a motley of geometric shapes, animal cutouts and numbers in felt ($3). Kenworthy Educational Service, Inc. has put out Programmed Reading Aids, a series with ten flip cards of words ($2.50), perception cards showing figures, domino patterns and numbers ($1), and such 65? workbooks as I Learn to Read and Primary Count and Color. More informative for parents is a record-booklet package, Teaching Jonny's Sister to Read ($4.95), in which Cambridge Housewife Henny Wenkart instructs her 4½-year-old daughter...