Word: lightbulbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desolation Row. The brown wood panelling, the dirty floor, the floor is wet--how'd it get wet?--the glowing red coils of the hotplate, the gray throb of he lightbulb. The world is a bus terminal. Who makes it out to Desolation Row? Well, for a starter...
...case, Holworthy won. Which wound to salt, they promptly createed a dummy, painted "Stoughton" on it, and hung it out a Holworthy upper window with a gigantic lightbulb rigged to illuminate...
...which point it occured to this porter that his roommate possesses ten-foot blowgun (for reasons best known to himself, natch), with which he could probably knock out the lightbulb sitting on the steps of Grays. From Stoughton it would be a snap...
...offering such old party workhorses as Endicott Peabody '42, Edward J. McCormack, Francis X. Bellotti, and Foster Furcolo. All were defeated in their last bids for public office, and some of them have lost more elections than they've won. In addition, such hacks as Francis E. Kelley ("a lightbulb for every housewife") and Pasquale Caggiano ("I been robbed") will undoubtedly decide to run for something and discredit their party still further...
Backstage at the burlesque (if this show could be called burlesque) is much the same as the stage door view of any other production. The same old naked lightbulb dinginess, the same sense of close-knit but often tempestuous community, the same jaded vitality. The only difference here was the injection of a vaguely nudist camp atmosphere...