Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best...
...slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped in a cloud of steam hissing up through holes in the stage, plummeted into the orchestra pit and squashed a violinist...
...emptying food into the victim's stomach. A boy who claims that the institute is making his condition worse is answered with evasive jargon from a Kafkaesque staff. The 85-minute film offers no comment and no solution, but in its relentless expose of a present-day snake pit, it deserves to stand with works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as an accusation and a plea for reform...
...social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge for Lynda and two friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...
...Hughes acquisition, the Sands Hotel. Drowning his sorrow after his casino credit was cut off at a mere $200,000, Sinatra 1) tried unsuccessfully to set fire to his suite, 2) jerked all the telephone jacks and trunk lines out of the hotel's switchboard, 3) promised a pit boss that "I'm gonna break both your legs," 4) overturned a table on the casino's credit manager who, in return, threw a punch that separated Frank from the caps on his two front teeth, and 5) announced that he was ending his 16-year association with...