Word: quan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Sly has Able announce his death, and the comedy takes a quan tum jump and delirium risibilitatis sets in. Returning to Broadway after an absence of ten years, Arthur Penn directs the evening's proceedings with the bounce of a trampoline. He must be good for his superb cast, for no one does any thing remotely wrong. Larry Gelbart's book is a naughty treasure laced with sassy one-liners and the ambience of bawdry that he brought to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. As for the formidably gifted George C. Scott...
...Then at week's end the word was passed through the Pentagon: 115 of the 456 men held in North Viet Nam would be turned over in Hanoi, and 27 of the 120 Americans held in the South would be freed by the Viet Cong at Quan Loi, about 60 miles north of Saigon. As part of the bargain, the South Vietnamese would release 4,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners over a four-day period. In both North and South, the U.S. captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty...