Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is totally dark; when the lights are supposed to be off, the stage is ablaze, allowing the audience to see Peter Shaffer's electrically amusing farce about antics in the dark...
...origins of the cold war. According to Peretz, Alperovitz is "a major figure in the revision of the history of the cold war." His first book, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam, was his Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge University and took first prize in the King's College and Peter House College competitions. He has been working on a second book concerning the future of politics since he was appointed an Institute fellow in August...
Northeastern placed second at 403. Peter Baranowski turned in an incredible 45, 34--79, and another Husky, Dave LeMaistre shot 78. Tufts was third with 405, B.C. fourth (411), M.I.T. fifth (419), and B.U. sixth (433). Brandeis did not field a full team. They're on vacation...
Added to that is the whole 20th century experience of abstract art, from cubism through abstract expressionism, which has taught many that art need represent neither a thing nor an emotion; luminal art, though radiantly handsome, generally does neither. Pop played a role in making commercial techniques acceptable. Peter Myer, 32, constructed Transit Orb out of cello phane designs and polarized plastic filters, which are more commonly used for sunglasses. Manhattan's Earl Reiback, 31, a onetime nuclear engineer, even has fun in taking an object-one of six different nudes-and then modulating the image into total abstraction...
...Pickles. Howard Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck to the walls with Weldwood Contact Glue, slipped his 240 lbs. into the sling, and then lay helplessly as the blocks separated and he went crashing to the floor...