Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ONLY PETER COOK . . . BUT ALSO DUDLEY MOORE (Decca). Two of the funny foursome of Beyond the Fringe make dialect ventures into such subjects as an order of leaping nuns and hanging The Laughing Cavalier in the "lav." They are every bit as beyond as ever...
...with a Gallic vengeance. In Leningrad, De Gaulle attended Mass in the city's only remaining Catholic church, Notre Dame de Lourdes, and received Communion while 500 Leningrad Catholics sang in Latin. In impeccable Russian, he quoted Pushkin on Sankt-Peterburg: "So stand in glory, Peter's city, and stand as invincible as Russia." He plunged into the Leningrad crowds-estimated as high as 1,000,000-shaking hands and dragging a reluctant Kosygin behind him. He swept through the Hermitage, gazing judiciously at Rembrandts and Murillos but discreetly skipping the halls devoted to the Napoleonic wars...
...world events such as the war in Viet Nam and the Cuban missile crisis, including a hoped-for interview with Khrushchev. Another possibility is the theater of cruelty, a kind of sauna bath of the senses, designed to leave playgoers shocked and tingling at every emotional pore. British Director Peter Brook masterminded Broadway's full-length initiation into the theater of cruelty, this season's surprise smash success, Marat/ Sade...
...background colors are red, white and blue; the face is pensive and deeply etched. It is the official face of Lyndon Baines Johnson, painted by New Mexico Artist Peter Hurd, 62, for the White House Historical Association and destined to hang in the East Wing. Hurd sketched L.B.J. on the wing, whenever he could, but mainly had to work from photographs. "He's a chair-fighter. You can't get him to sit still," the artist complained. Despite the difficulties, it was a rewarding job. "President Johnson has a very paintable face," said Hurd. "What I would call...
...Born. To Peter Snell, 27, New Zealand track champ, who in 1962 broke three world records in eight days; and Sally Turner Snell, 24: their first child, a girl; in Auckland, New Zealand...