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...University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships with the butcher for an extra piece of pork chop for the kids." The neighborhood hero is the man who betters his lot by any means -the man who "wears a $200 silk suit every day, $55 alligator shoes and this sort of thing. He drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Menchildren Speak | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

Kopit's greater success, the one that carried him into the legitimate theatre, was produced not by Dunster but by the Adams House Drama Society. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad premiered at Agassiz Theatre in January, 1960. Within a month it was snatched up by New York agents and moved to an off-Broadway house, whence it was again snatched up, this time by Hollywood...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Arthur Kopit | 12/16/1965 | See Source »

...Arizona State before Devaney dropped by-just as Tony's mother was sitting down to the family organ. Devaney lifted his Irish tenor in song, and Arizona never had a chance "After that," sighs Tony, "there wa; never a doubt in my mamma's mine about where I was going to college. ] was going to play for that nice Mr Devaney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Rhymes with Uncanny | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Virna Lisi adorns a wrong number entitled The Telephone Call by Director Dino Risi (The Easy Life). Swathed in slippery folderol, Virna lets her eager husband sweat while she warms up the wire with Mamma, discussing status, family problems, and the bikini-clad trollop who inhabits a terrace apartment across the way. Virna is still jabbering as her mate steals over to find out for himself whether a girl can really be as wicked as all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four for Foolery | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...traveling U.S. businessman who looks to Manhattan for culinary cachet, perhaps no group of restaurants has created more interest than Restaurant Associates. Its 19 restaurants-from the tree-decked Four Seasons to the Lucullan Forum of the Twelve Caesars, from the Italianesque Mamma Leone's to the open-all-night Brasserie -are a successful blend of imaginative showmanship, lofty prices and aspiration to high cuisine. Waldorf System, Inc., is a somewhat different chain of restaurants. Its 83 cafeterias, drive-ins and pancake houses in eight states lean heavily on self-service eateries in poor locations, offer such dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Goulash in the Making | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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