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Word: pvt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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James McLure looks like one. His two relatively short works, Pvt. Wars and Lone Star, are ready for instant transfer as a back-to-back double bill to other resident theaters or to off-Broadway. Both works are three-man plays, and the characters are temperamentally similar. One is macho aggressive, one is flailingly dumb, and one is provokingly prissy. McLure writes with his fist, and his characters punch out at adamant walls. Pvt. Wars takes place in a mental ward for brain-bruised war veterans. In a series of blackout scenes, Richard Bowne, Leo Burmester and Daniel Ziskie place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Third Running of the Derby | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...three-year-olds will even dare take the track against him at Belmont but he will again have to face Sham, the horse that ran second in both the Derby and Preakness in efforts good enough to win in most years. There will also be a newcomer named Pvt. Smiles, which did not run in the first part of the Triple Crown but showed great promise of being a distance horse in last week's Jersey Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Some 3,000 of the Rolls hoods have been supplied by Brooklyn's PVT Plastics, which introduced them at Manhattan's International Automobile Show last year, and retails them through VW dealers for $225 to $300 apiece. According to PVT Executive Ray Marino, the concept originated with a company engineer who disliked the front of his VW. PVT also offers other Rolls-Royced accessories for the VW, including bumpers and a "Continentalized" rear deck. "There's no end to what we can do," Marino boasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Elegant Bug | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...trying to fulfill these objectives most of the programming of PVT has been characterized by the abandonment of the stilted, formalistic interviewer approach used by network journalists. The result is that the people who do the talking-the minister of the Young Lords who gives a guided tour of the El Barrio, the observers and participants in the New York Women's Liberation March,-feel less constricted and are able to abandon the on-stage, false media personality that network television inflicts upon them. In one PVT sequence, a black shines the shoes of a white man. "I'll tell...

Author: By R. CRAIG Unger, | Title: The Radical Alternatives to Commercial TV | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

Most of the other radical video groups cover a broader range of material than does PVT. Raindance, as well as groups like San Francisco's Mobile Muck Truck and New Year's Global Village, covers both culturally and politically radical events...

Author: By R. CRAIG Unger, | Title: The Radical Alternatives to Commercial TV | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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