Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with age, lost quite a bit of its bite, but it's still entertaining. It was made at a time when blacks were almost universally regarded as fearsome creatures, and derived a good portion of its punch from that premise. A black man becomes the president of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency by mistake, and proceeds to turn the company on its head. Particularly hilarious are the television commercials that Swope makes up, which put real people in stereotypical ad situations...
...dramatic and magnificent and positive impression." To reporters he cracked: "I'm trying to get a minority report on something, but I'm not having any luck." Strauss joked about the joyous risk that the unusual degree of harmony might become a wet blanket of ennui at Madison Square Garden: "I'm not bored a bit. I might just sit in the background and drink a little whisky." In fact, with the nomination virtually settled, Carter will have to use some imagination to hold public interest...
...price-gouge there−it was all to be expected once the Democrats had picked New York City as the site of their convention. But not even the worldly-wise among the press had anticipated the size of the serpents that lurk around the Big Apple and its Garden; Madison Square, that...
...Costs of $15 a linear foot plus a $150 security deposit for installing rods and divider curtains for working spaces at Madison Square Garden. (A figure since lowered to $4.50.) The same items in Kansas City: $3 per foot and no security charge...
...piece orchestra together for five weeks of rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington. But when it finally reached Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater, the critics found its view of American history "bleak and patronizing" and its humor -typified by such lines as Dolly Madison saying "I must go feed my parrot, his language is becoming scandalous" -unbearably flat. While some found Bernstein's score strong, rich and melodic, others said it was "self-derivative" and unable to rescue "a bum idea that has arrived in confusion...