Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French political sport of right-baits-left. With more intellectual acuity than passion Jean Anouilh goes back to Robespierre to perform a masterly autopsy on the revolutionary mentality. As Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands as a sexy pussycat who claws and Alan Alda as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...Curiously enough, this remarkably human robot is being played by Julie Newmar, and typecasting has rarely had a brighter hour. A strong-minded, singleminded, career-minded girl with a unique sense of humor, Julie speaks in terse, direct and sometimes disarming sentences that seem to have been programmed on punch cards that say PLEASE DO NOT FOLD OR BEND. No method actress has ever found a more empathetical wave length with the character she is playing. "Rhoda is the ultimate consciousness," says Julie, "the ultimate reality, the ultimate freedom...
...Nicholas game, Wade Welch will start in the goal, and John Daly, Bob Clark, Chip Scammon, and Red Coleman will form the basic two defensive units. But if Weiland needs some extra scoring punch, he will probably move Daly and Clark to Price's line...
...contemporary form of the mating dance. The man may not want to go to bed with the girl, as the hero of this play doesn't, but he realizes that it may be the only way to get her to shut up. Pussycat is as old as the Punch-and-Judy show and as new as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the evening is filled with good, healthy, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...despite the injury to Doherty, Yale's backfield retains a good deal of punch with a pair of halfbacks, Bob Bartlett and Chris Kule. Bartlett is the team's leading ground gainer, and Kule has reportedly been singled out by Yale coach John Pont as a prime varsity prospect...