Word: marts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
...heart of Atlanta is rising Peachtree Center, a $175 million com plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...
...medical profession but was a promotional failure. Recalls Portman wryly: "I lost about $7,500, which I didn't have." His next venture was vastly more successful. Encouraged by the success of a furniture exhibition he organized in 1957, he made plans to build the $15 million Merchandise Mart-the first structure of what was to become Peachtree Center...
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. loaned him $8,000,000 for the new Mart, and additional backing came from Atlanta Real Estate Man Ben Massell and Dallas Multimillionaire Trammell Crow. Portman ended up being the president and a major stockholder of the Mart, a structure built precisely according to his specifications. In the case of the new Regency Hyatt House (TIME, June 2), Portman formed a development corporation that gave him design and financial control right from the start. As a result, he was able to demonstrate his concept of "exploded space," by which he means dramatizing the flow and interpenetration...
...busy corruption of the usurper's court and the relative ease of the forest life provides a curious, imperfect echo of the poles of Shakespeare's own life: the plaguey, seething mart of London and Stratford's Arden Forest. As You Like It may be, in fact, one of the most personal of Shakespeare's plays. An attempt at a definitive production is obliged to meet these issues, to join these diverse elements, and the result may be a definitive failure...