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...third sketch striates humor with poignancy. A daughter is going off to college. Her mother (Eileen Heckart), pridefully modern, is anxious to turn the girl into a kind of one-woman prophylactic kit. The husband (Balsam) wants to preserve for his daughter something of the force, excitement and mystery of an intimately loving man-woman encounter. As a man who pledges his word and his heart, he is wounded at playlet's end by a generation that occasionally pledges neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ticker-Tape Blizzard of Fun | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...insomniac's sheep, some woolly, some sheared and some weird. The evening is affluent with easy laughs, and yet curiously anemic in genuine humor. Lou Jacobi and Kay Medford are masters of ethnically styled comic delivery. He gives a line a built-in shrug. She is a one-woman keening committee, and her voice has a cold in its head. The couple's common burden is a Gentile nudnick of an embassy chief who has suffered every major disaster in his diplomatic posts except "a plague of locusts." An innocent abroad with a camera, Jacobi touches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Diasporadic Fun | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Miss Bieberman, a resident of 26 Boylston St., Cambridge, runs a one-woman organization called the Psychedelic information Center for users of LSD and similar drugs. Her main aim is to bring psychedelic information out into the open because she believes people can use psychedelics constructively in their daily lives...

Author: By Stephen I. Kruskall, | Title: Lisa Bieberman Held on Charge Of Mailing LSD | 6/1/1966 | See Source »

SWEET CHARITY is kept aloft by Dancer Gwen Verdon, a one-woman whirlwind propelled by Director Bob Fosse's breezy choreography. Unfortunately, Neil Simon's book about a goodhearted doxy duped by love is woefully becalmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

SWEET CHARITY is kept aloft by Dancer Gwen Verdon, a one-woman whirlwind propelled by Director Bob Fosse's breezy choreography. Unfortunately, Neil Simon's book about a goodhearted doxy duped by love is woefully becalmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 29, 1966 | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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