Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smashed against his cheek-bone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...
...their first or second week, a record number since World War II. The mortality rate on Broadway makes casino gambling look like a sound investment. The average million that goes into a major musical and the $500,000 or so that is put up for a dramatic production are lost if the show fails. Because of the huge sums of money involved in Broadway productions, there is often a doctor in the house-waiting in the wings to minister to a collapsing show...
...simple reorganization. After the current Broadway revival of Whoopee!, based on the 1928 musical, was slammed in St. Louis, Playwright Jonathan Reynolds (Yankees 3 Boston 0 Top of the Seventh) received an S O S. "In the opening scene, for instance, the main character, Henry Williams, was lost in the crowd, so I gave him more lines," says Reynolds. "I mainly reorganized the play so that the audience would know whom to follow." Whoopee! is doing steady business...
While Academy Awards virtually guarantee international box-office dividends to the winners, the Cannes honors have little commercial impact beyond the cinemas of France. Still, nobody ever lost money winning, and last week on the Riviera, the Americans cleaned...
...Festival jurors (among them Actress Susannah York and Indian Director Satyajit Ray) insisted Apocalypse split honors with The Tin Drum, an adaptation of the Günter Grass novel by West German Director Volker Schlondorff (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum). It was the first time since 1973 that the Golden Palm had been awarded to two films. Some boos and jeers greeted the announcement of the decision. Cynics also noted Apocalypse did not have to contend with two popular films, Woody Allen's Manhattan and Milos Forman's Hair, both of which were screened outside of competition...