Word: parked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick are also crisp...
...heady mixture of blues, folk and jazz that began as the private expression of the hippie underground and only recently bubbled to the surface. Now, in such cavernous San Francisco halls as the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom, as well as in rollerskating rinks, movie theaters, veterans' halls, park bandstands, college gyms and roped-off streets from Pacific Heights to Butchertown, about 300 bands are inviting the faithful to "blow your mind" with the new sound. Hairy hippies all, they go by such fanciful names as the Moby Grape, the Grateful Dead, the Allnight Apothecary, the Quicksilver Messenger Service...
...simple idea behind the design of contemporary children's zoos is that the youngsters will love the animals more if they are given a chance to touch them. So it was for the new children's zoo at Seattle's Woodland Park. Says the zoo's architect, Fred Bassetti: "We wanted the kids to play tug of war with the monkeys, pet the rabbits, hug the lambs, be chased by the geese-in a word, to participate rather than just look." Hence a minimum of cages and fences...
...behavior. A pair of eight-year-old girls rang doorbells and collected $14.39, which they sent in with a note of apology, saying that "hopefully, most children are taught kindness and gratitude for the love and beauty of God's creatures." "The contrast is unbelievable," said Seattle Park Superintendent Edward Johnson. "It's as if the public is trying to deserve its new zoo." And as if the children themselves had learned more from the episode than anyone would have dared imagine...
...establishes his heroine Rosemary as a lapsed Catholic. Her story begins when she and her ambitious actor-husband, Guy, take up residence in the Bramford, a prestigious and fabled apartment house on the West Side of Manhattan-a place obviously modeled after the proud, gloomy old Dakota, on Central Park West. One of the fables of the Bramford concerns the prevalence of witches there...