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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triumph of the Will. Is Coco even Coco, or is she really another truly rugged individualist known as Katharine Hepburn? As an actress, Hepburn has spent a lifetime filtering characters through the steely sieve of herself. She does not submit to roles; she rules them, and everyone has grown terribly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Admirable though it is, her work does not work, precisely because it is all work and no play. She gets little help. Andre Previn's score always misses, without ever swinging. Beaton's costumes are a slight modification of the timeless Edwardia that he prefers to inhabit, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The production seems to squelch almost everyone connected with it. Only René Auberjonois as a faggy designer manages to filch an occasional moment of amusing exuberance. A number he does called Fiasco is the closest thing Coco has to a show-jogger-and is all too apt as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

> Margaret Leighton's performance in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana, 1961.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Top of the Decade: The Theater | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

> Who's Afraid of 'Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, 1962.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Top of the Decade: The Theater | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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