Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicago, the Second City, is about neck and neck with New York: 1,203 conventions and trade shows, 2.4 million delegates, $515 million revenues. Attractions: 44,000 hotel rooms, 1.1 million sq. ft. of exhibition space at McCormick Place, plus 370,000 elsewhere; opera, theater, museums, restaurants, shopping and a rowdy night life...
...imposing alien concepts on the original plays, Brustein hailed them as valuable new perspectives on great works. "Bob is very tolerant toward a real effort on somebody's part to do something," says Epstein. "Even if he disagrees, he'd rather see that than see someone dead from the neck up." Brustein, in fact, has frequently stated that theater should be a dialogue, that productions should often arise in response to each other...
...Mike Herrmann as the out-of-work actor Diabetes, and George Melrod as Hepatitis both look uncannily like Groucho Marx and play their urban-Jewish-intellectual-neurotic characters to the hilt. Meanwhile, the supporting cast, led by the gum-cracking, orgasm-seeking Phil major from Brooklyn College and Great Neck, Doris Levine (played nicely by Jaleh Poorooshasb), camps and hams through Allen's inspired lunacy. Every new character who walks onstage builds the madness to a higher pitch until the whole stage explodes in a riot of screaming neurotics. Particularly funny among the crowds of people who come on stage...
Primary night brought The Duke, the strongman hero of the winter blizzard, up against the reality of his own spectacular lack of popularity. The mellow man in the crew-neck sweater, the man who had looked so great in February, had come a cropper in November, for the simple fact that he was not a likeable man. Dukakis could not campaign well, and Ed King did. King also had the issue...
shirts. At baseball games, it is almost exclusively the blue-collar fans who remove their shirts and sunbathe in the bleachers; the Pierre Cardin numbers in the box seats are, if anything, unbuttoned only at the neck...