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...Pelican, then, is both an excellent and a significant production, significant in that it comes close to being a perfect realization of one of the ideal uses of the Experimental Theatre. Taking full advantage of the surplus building supplies in the Loeb shop and the furniture in the prop rooms, The Pelican proves that a low-budget Ex show can look as professional on its own terms as a show on the mainstage...
...Volunteers in Service to America) was an exception, and so was CAP (Community Action Program). At the local level, though, it was acronyms aweigh. Detroit opened TAP (Total Action Against Poverty). New York insisted on BEST (Basic Essential Skills Training) and QUEST (Queens Educational and Social Team). There was PROP (Portland Regional Opportunities Program) and DWOP, which sounds like a mispronunciation but represents Denver War on Poverty. A less felicitous coinage was the name given a privately financed program at Haverford College: Broadening Opportunities...
...estimated 5,500 to 7,000 men each month. In an effort to stem the tide, Guam-based B-52 Stratoforts last week carpet-bombed infiltration outlets in South Viet Nam's "Zone C" for the eighth time in eleven days. But only Ma and his antique, prop-driven T-28s have been hitting the Sihanouk Trail...
Already the Videocorder has become a show-business prop. Performers can tape their rivals' shows; mimics are building up libraries of fresh material. Some colleges are testing it; Fairleigh Dickinson tapes chemistry lectures, suggests that students who were absent make up by watching tapes. A new rental market is opening up for TV-taped plays, operas and movies. And for homemade shows, there's nothing like it to keep little Polly's ninth birthday a joy forever. In fact, for the self-watcher the joys are limitless; when he has run through his whole library of tapes...
...neither Leete nor Miss Boyer knows how to move onstage. Leete occasionally relaxed enough not to look pained, but Miss Boyer was obviously frightened by the smallest prop manipulations. The general staging was no help. The two principals played against fuzzy, torn transparencies in a ramshackle slatboard set that was simply disgraceful, and moved underneath two ugly purple-specked quadrangles that had absolutely no function. An engaging jazz trio that sang mocking platitudes with Gleem-bright smiles was a lonely ray of grace amid the general desolation...