Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
...only other Harvard skier to place among the top ten in any event was Peter Carter who finished fourth in the giant slalom. Carter also finished fourth in the slalom, but he was disqualified for missing a gate...
...Battle of Algiers did nothing else but jolt the audience into realizing that complacency is synonymous with guilt in the minds of an oppressed people, it would be a stunning film on the level of Peter Watkins' The War Game. But acting, awe-inspiring recreation of detail, and stylistic integrity help Algiers rise above even the best propaganda, and leaves us with an overpowering feeling of humanity...
Skimming over waves ten feet high, the SR.N4 raced ahead at speeds as high as 53 m.p.h., carrying a crew of four and 28 passengers. The ride was surprisingly smooth. Reported Peter Lamb, chief test commander of British Hovercraft Corp.: "This will make seasickness a thing of the past...
Murky Waters. Of the only two new plays with any serious intellectual content to have opened in the West End this season, one-Peter Ustinov's disappointing Halfway Up the Tree-closed in New York after only 72 performances. The other, Wise Child, has already closed in London, despite a strong cast headed by Sir Alec Guinness. A kinky, comic and slightly sinister play by Simon Gray, Wise Child presented Guinness as a criminal on the lam, disguised as a woman. He is being blackmailed by a weirdo youth who carries out the pretense of being...