Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lear runs more than four hours. It tests our endurance with strange visual effects that add little to an understanding of the play. The notorious storm of Act III wails for an hour amidst pendulous light bulbs, harsh spotlights, rolling rocks, flickering candles, blinking headlights of a sleek Lincoln Continental, and the disturbing whine of steel cellos. Yet Sellars wants more. On comes a snake of worklights, four television sets and two Polaroid cameras with flash bulbs. Sellars uses every corner of the stage, from the turrets in the wings and the halls outside the theater to the back seat...
...that promises to exhaust and saturate, Crane has already been slogging campaign that has, thus far, stressed style over content, Phil Crane owns a handsome visage, an endless store of historical quotes and a natty wardrobe. Phil Crane is a political operator who harkens back to other days. Quoting Lincoln and Jefferson ad infinitum, he always has the right smile or the right historical quotation; after months of practice, Phil Crane is smooth...
...also says that the Illinois campaign suffered the greatest financial setback when funds began to dry up after Kennedy's 2-1 defeat in Iowa last month. But despite Kennedy's woes in the Land of Lincoln, Carter's strategist does not predict overwhelming victory. "We're ahead at this point," Franks acknowledges, "but the election is almost a month away...
...Army coat that General George Custer wore on his Western campaigns is among the items of sartorial memorabilia stashed away in the "nation's attic," along with the coat Admiral Robert Peary took to the North Pole and the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater on the night he was assassinated. Now the Smithsonian Institution has chosen to enshrine the brown leather jacket that became Arthur Fonzerelli's trademark through seven hit seasons of TV's Happy Days comedy series. Actor Henry Winkler, 34, who went from unknowndom to stardom as Fonzi...
John W. Mazzola, president of Manhattan's Lincoln Center: "Without the arts, New York would be Bayonne, N.J. And I grew up in Bayonne...