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Word: playgoers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hsing Theater is a forceful reminder that Broadway starves the senses. Performing centuries-old classics. The Beautiful Bait and The White Snake, this Chinese theater troupe refreshes the eye by splashing the stage with color. It fills the air with exotic sounds. It galvanizes the playgoer physically with the grace and discipline of bodily action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Chinese Fireworks | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? leaves welts on a playgoer's mind with its savage wit and marital horrors. In this brilliantly virulent struggle of man and wife, Arthur Hill plays cobra to Uta Hagen's mongoose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 28, 1962 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. There's a Ford in many a playgoer's future-Paul Ford. Ford looks rather like an elephant that has had its trunk bobbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life Begins at 60 | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Tchin-Tchin is a strange and oddly affecting play in which an Italo-American contractor and a proper Englishwoman are thrown into each other's company because their respective spouses are having an affair. Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn touch the playgoer's nerve ends, crazybones, and heart strings with deceptive ease and authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 23, 1962 | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center piano), and bend the playgoer's ear without touching his heart or prickling his nerves. They all seem to be high on bootleg rhetoric ("You drink a cup of sunlight, you're immortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Damned & the Dim | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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