Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above both entrances to Tommy's, signs proclaim that shishkebab is the specialty of the house. Blitman goes up ot the counter and asks for shishkebab. "We're all out," says Tommy. Shishkebab is a standing joke at Tommy's. They never serve it there. Blitman orders a hamburger plate. For only 85c he gets two hamburgers, one bun, two pads of butter, lettuce and tomato, mayonnaise, and french fries. A fifteen cent coke brings the price of dinner to one dollar even...
...diners at the Washington Hilton, "to sit in the presence of the next President of the U.S." Well, Lyndon Johnson was nowhere in sight, and neither were Hubert Humphrey and Bobby Kennedy. But just about every Republican aspirant for 1968 was on hand. The $500-a-plate affair was billed as a "G.O.P. Victory Gala" to celebrate last November's comeback, but it was more of a preview for next year. It was also the most profitable single event in the party's history, netting $1,000,000 for the G.O.P.'s 1968 congressional war chest, including...
...Park's government embarks on its second five-year plan, Korea is pulsing with activity. The war demands of Viet Nam have created a huge export market for uniforms, boots, rubber goods, plywood, construction materials and galvanized sheet plate. This, along with other expanding Asian civilian markets, helped to lift the country's commodity exports last year to a record $255 million. To reduce imports, South Korea's first oil refinery, built two years ago at Ulsan, is being expanded, and another $50 million refinery is going up at Yosu, providing the base for a $100 million...
Steinberg's sets are multi-layered whimsies raised and lowered like window shades and decorated with semi-Oriental fantasy furniture in the style of china-plate Ming. "I have made the sets to coincide with the work's philosophical nature," Steinberg explained, and then mischievously interpreted Stravinsky's allegory: "This work shows the usefulness of the Devil. He changes people's lives by giving them things they don't really want. The evolutionary quality of the Devil is very useful...
Come you bed-pressers and plate-lickers, sophists, and cynics, come to the Loeb and see Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear. Feydeau has the world's number. Laurence Senelick, the director and translator, has Feydeau's number. Anyone who makes it to the theatre will roar his ribs...