Word: mines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feste of Alvin Epstein is outstanding. But even his performance is overshadowed by those of the two sidekicks Berghof invented for him. The Dancing Zany in entrusted to Geoffrey Holder, a 28-year-old six-and-a-half-foot mine of talent: dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, painter, composer, writer, photographer, book illustrator, and folklorist. This show draws on only the first three of his many gifts. Dressed in a striking white costume with mismatched red and orange gloves and stockings, he does a thousand and one things with skill and vigor. The Singing Zany is played by Russell Oberlin...
...fact that the text does not require the players to convey the music of poetic lines--an area in which the company as a whole is weak. This is not to say that the writing in the play lacks interest; far from it. The text is a rich mine of various kinds of lower-class Elizabethan speech, including laughable treatments of French and Welsh dialects. It is filled with captivating puns, doubles ententes, and novel images; and it constitutes a veritable dictionary of original invectives, insults, and expletives...
...Mine Enemy Grows Older, King...
...accompanying your story on D-day in Europe is a wonderful piece of military reference material; I've filed mine away where I can always get at it. However, it seems to be drawn from the point of view of the German commander because, as any armchair strategist knows, the enemy is shown in red and friendly forces in blue. JOSEPH M. MASSARO Lieutenant, U.S.A. Fort Knox...
...UNITED MINE WORKERS paid $438,000 in damages for violence in trying to organize Meadow Creek Coal Co. of Montgomery, Tenn. Action has spurred other mine operators to sue for $6,000,000 in damages, and additional suits totaling $7,000,000 are expected soon. To meet assault on its $21 million treasury, U.M.W. assessed its 190,000 members $20 each...