Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working hard to enhance its reputation for publishing the unexpected, Esquire was not inclined to entrust its convention coverage to conventional reporters. The magazine may never again be able to field as odd a team of reporters as the threesome it sent to Chicago: Novelist William Burroughs, French Novelist and Playwright Jean Genet, and Satirist Terry Southern. They were joined on arrival by Poet Allen Ginsberg, who was in town to observe...
PROMISES, PROMISES, by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple). Starring Jerry Orbach, the frenetic schnook from Scuba Duba. Directed by Robert Moore, who staged the off-Broadway hit The Boys in the Band. Stage version of the movie The Apartment...
This summer's prize for odd and ag onizing theatrical experiments goes to Broadway Director Harold Clurman (Bus Stop, Shot in the Dark). For six days every week since July 15, he has been directing a Japanese version of Eu gene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
Annie is played by Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian who was last misused in the Burtons' bomb Boom! (TIME, May 31). Here, she controls her role with an even poignancy and an odd beauty. Though Paxinou's part is minuscule, her gravitational field exerts enough force to draw every scene toward her. But despite Zita's undoubted appeal to dreamy young girls, an interesting young star and a grand old pro are not enough to support yet another tremulous version of the girl-in-a-woman's-body theme. Director Robert Enrico tries to lend his slender...
...surprisingly, the result is less than successful. Henry Worthington is like most Cozzens heroes. Society judges him a winner, but on the basis of his own secretly harbored prima facie evidence he wonders if he just might not be a loser after all. A successful management consultant of "sixty odd," Worthington decides with metaphorical directness to examine the management -and meaning-of his own life. His method, however, is indirect and discursive, dicey and erratic...