Word: macke
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...rain continued. 2:15 passed, and then 3:15 and 4:15. The scoreboard amused the faithful with an Expos trivia quiz ("Non. c'est Mack Jones"). Rogers and Christenson...
...another trouble point, John Mack, president of the Los Angeles Urban League, cites reductions in community services required under California's Proposition 13, particularly a virtual freeze on hiring any new city and county employees. Protests Mack: "Black people are still just trying to get their feet in the door, and now it's being slammed shut again...
There is also new information about the era's most famous flameouts (D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim) and the best-documented veterans (Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Lillian Gish). Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett's sad mansion full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent...
...biggest toll was paid by the elderly and the poor who lived too far from their jobs to walk and could not afford cabs. Anna Mack, 53, drove to her job as a cleaning woman in Rockefeller Center and had to pay parking fees of $8.50 a night, equal to about one-fourth of her take-home pay. A quarter of the city's garment workers, most of them non white and poor, could not get to their jobs...
...possibility, it is unlikely that Robbins, now 61, is going to rejoin his progeny by doing a new show soon. "What interests me is a great challenge," he says, "like doing Uncle Tom 's Cabin as the Siamese might do it [The King and I or a Mack Sennett ballet [High Button Shoes] or gritty backstage burlesque [Gypsy] or Jewish shtetl life [Fiddler]. I like doing the research, looking at the theatrical magazines of those periods or going through old photographs at the New York Public Library. Let's face it, a musical version of Little Women just...