Word: raffishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is New York's Public Theater, which in four years has become something of a city landmark itself. In the raffish, energetic image of its founder-producer, Joseph Papp, the Public Theater has converted the interior of the Astor Library into five theaters, a cinématheque, a photographic workshop, scene shop and offices. It offers an impressively wide range of inexpensive (top ticket: $6) and provocative artistic fare: plays from Shakespeare to experimental new works, films, poetry readings, dance programs and concerts...
...France, an actor whose films are seriously studied. Lewis says he is even thinking of moving to Paris-"a good place to come if you're feeling low." For Bette Davis it was a bushel or two of hippie-esque old clothes for her role as a raffish grandmother whose hobby is robbing banks. The film, currently in production, is called Bunny O'Hare, in which Miss Davis rides a getaway motorbike with Ernest Borgnine. Catherine Deneuve's pretty light looked for a while as though it might go out permanently under bushels of pachyderm. Tiny, flame...
...Left now, generally speaking, are the people that espouse the Galbraith theory of capitalism. Back in the good old days, before I got onto the raffish fringe of the establishment, I was regarded as an extreme left-winger...
...disputes the value of these versatile gadgets to people who live and work in remote, roadless areasfarmers, ranchers, Eskimos, trappers, rural doctors and utility repair crews. To other users, the raffish vehicles offer instant fun at relatively little cost: $200 for the smallest trail bike, $1,000 for an average snowmobile, $1,200 for a dune buggy...
...vaudeville was once king, burlesque was the nation's raffish, rococo old queen. Sixty years ago this week, Baltimore's New Monumental Theater featured "Divorceland: A fantasy of song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose...