Word: playing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quaker forward line receives assistance from aggressive halfbacks who control midfield play with accurate short passes...
...when Harvard and Pennsylvania meet at Franklin Field today, the stakes are all too clear. The loser will leave the field with three defeats in Ivy play, and with Dartmouth. Yale and Princeton still unbeaten, three defeats could be enough to doom the loser to the bottom half of the League...
...load of that- that is the plot of the most recent play to open on Broadway. You can pay eight dollars to see it tonight in New York. It has a star (Geraldine Page), a pretty set, and cost $150.000 to put on. It opened Thursday night: with any luck it will run through next week: with a lot of luck. it will be sold to the movies. It will also make a few thousand people, those who happen to see it, very miserable for two hours. Most of those few thousand people may not come back to a Broadway...
...ladies create big box-office receipts for shows involving no visible talent on the basis of a show's title ( How Now Dow Jones ); how a star can take over and destroy a $600,000 musical (Eydic Gorme and Golden Rainbow ); how critics mercilessly destroy the rare good Broadway play (Clive Barnes and I Never Sang for My Father...
...last play, The Heeding. is Checkbox's burlesque of the marriage ceremony. Everyone gets drunk and throws around food. Anything at all sensible is shouted down by the guests, and the play comes close to pathos at the end. A "general" who nobody knows has been brought to the party because the bride "always wanted a general." The "general" is just an old retired navy man who starts screaming orders and blowing his whistle. The guests finally shut him up and hustle him out, and he goes off muttering "A shoddy way to treat an old man." Chekhov's comments...