Word: playwrightes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brien, introduced at the lecture as an intellectual who had successfully made the jump to elective politics, is a reknowned playwright and literary critic, and once served as assistant to former U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskold...
Going Ape by Nick Hall. Five doors do not a Feydeau farce make. But in this world premiére, Playwright Nick Hall, 30, must be credited with the right source of inspiration. One wishes he had stuck more tenaciously to the great French farceur and depended less on college humor and parodies of old '40s movies. However, Going Ape is truly zany. The hero, Rupert Yaeggi (Dennis Michaels), is a kind of Candide in reverse. He has decided that this is the worst of all possible worlds, and he has opted to commit suicide...
Jimi Hendrix. Brian Jones. William Burroughs. Andy Warhol. Janis Joplin. Lou Reed. Edith Piaf. Baudelaire. Norman Mailer. Rastafarianism. Playwright Sam Shepherd...
This macabre fantasy, conceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky for the 1971 black humor film The Hospital, has been overshadowed by reality. Last week investigators were virtually convinced that many of the two dozen puzzling deaths at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., last summer and at a small suburban New Jersey hospital a decade ago had actually been murders committed by members of the hospital staffs. The two cases...
...evolution from the proscenium arch of the playwright to the zygomatic arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...