Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burlesqued the experience in a column: "Just one more script and that island in the Aegean would be mine. I wrote another script... No longer were we doing a musical about a paraplegic cabdriver who falls in love with a tollbooth collector at the Lincoln Tunnel. Somehow, inexorably, because there's no business like show business, the musical had turned into the story of a fast-food-chain heiress who falls in love with a Marine corporal during the Boxer Rebellion...
...Bernstein's baton was as big as a flagpole, and Baryshnikov finally stood as tall as his talent. The giant figures were all performing on an enormous screen that covered the facade of the Metropolitan Opera House. The innovative sound-and-light spectacle marked the 20th anniversary of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
...together by Bob Gill and Robert Rabinowitz, the pair that helped create Beatlemania, Lincoln Center's 30-minute son et lumière is an outsized history of the six-building performing arts complex, from its groundbreaking in May 1959, through its shaky early years, to its reasonably tranquil present. The movie, which will run through Labor Day, may not be the best show in New York City, but it is indisputably the biggest and one of the most pleasant...
...opening night black-tie audience loved it and went on to have one of the season's best parties in the center's theaters. A storm threatened, the food was forgettable, but the anniversary bash, like Lincoln Center itself, managed to work. President John Mazzola, a proud host, saw it as a symbol. "New York is the cultural capital of the world, and this celebration underlines that in gold...
...teachers of political science at one of the most prestigious Americun universities seem to have lost respect for fundamental American political values: freedom to protest against injustice, equality for all races, democratic decision-making, and social activism. How can such teachers do justice to the American Revolution, to Abraham Lincoln, to the Brown decision...