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...Right, Jack. Looking like a fanatical potato, ubiquitous Peter Sellers plays a union shop steward, who dreams of a worker's paradise, with enormous sadness and brilliant humor...
Belle of Boston. The clan came by its political instincts easily. The Kennedys and Mother Rose's family, the Fitzgeralds, came to Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor...
Grumman not only turned out rugged planes that, riddled with holes, brought pilots safely home, but it turned them out fast. Its production boss was brusque and burly Leon ("Jake") Swirbul. Under his prodding, the Grumman plant, amid the potato fields of Long Island, N.Y., had more the atmosphere of the front line than of a factory. It turned out more than 17,000 aircraft for the Navy, in March 1945 produced 658, a record for a single month. As executive vice president, Swirbul shared a small, unpretentious office with President Leroy ("Roy") Grumman. Working in shirtsleeves, Jake...
...versatile complex of latticed background panels, designed by Rouben Ter-Arutanian in 1956 and used for the dozen productions since, are gone this summer. Instead, Ter-Arutunian has encased the whole proscenium and stage within a surface of giant potato chips. This adequately serves the exotic Mediterranean Bermuda that Shakespeare specified for The Tempest; but it proves less fitting for Tweifth Night. Director Jack London, who has previously shown a penchant for gimmicking up his productions, has really gone 'round the bend this time, and must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added...
...weather activities often center on frenzied weekend parties in the "den," attended by neighbors, who each in his turn will throw a potato-chip and cheese-dip party on succeeding weekends. Cries a Chicago suburban woman: "I'm so sick and tired of seeing those same faces every Friday and Saturday night, I could scream." In Kansas City's suburban Overland Park, three jaded couples formed an "Anti-Conformity League" to fight groupthink, disbanded it soon afterward because, explains ex-Schoolteacher Ginger Powers (two children), "it was getting just too organized to be anti-conformist...