Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their modesty in the arts is commendable, since most can't even carry a tune. They do think they can read, however, and as recently as 1974 rejected the unanimous choice of the fiction jury, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow...
...song ended, as the ten talented cast members re-positioned themselves on the stage for the next number. Speaking of numbers, there were 30 numbers lifted in the program, a very few of which were left out. They came from shows like A Chorus Line, Godspell, Pippin, Finian's Rainbow, and Fiddler on the Roof. The music was good: Broadway showtunes that would have made Lawrence Welk. The dancing was good; a guy did a somersault and knocked over the only flat on the stage. The singing was good; the show's high point definitely came when the cast, clad...
...name the most obvious ones, all of which, like Runaways, either originated or generated excitement at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Greenwich Village: Hair, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and A Chorus Line. This musical's basic structure derives from Chorus Line. Like the gypsies in that show, who deliver soliloquies as to why they ran away to Broadway to dance, the bruised youngsters in Runaways sing songs of woe about fleeing ugly homes for streets and scenes sometimes even darker. What Elizabeth Swados, 27, here portrays in a dramatically erratic...
...that's when Harvard came alive, breaking the Huskies' swarming press with a rainbow assortment of crisp passes, jumpers, driving layups and shots off the glass...
...program in which the guests play themselves," so Denis Healey, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted the BBC's invitation to appear in a TV parody of The Wizard of Oz. Decked out in a red cape and his own extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed with money...