Word: realm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high priestess in the realm of the irrational, Jayne Meadows Allen does a deadly parody of Louella Parsons, and Max Wright is a marvel of frustration as a writer with nothing to show for his work but a gilded cage. If one name must rank above the other 28 in the cast, it has to be that of John Lithgow, whose simple-souled George cements his reputation as an actor of formidable versatility...
...Stones become part of history and Springsteen becomes reminiscent of our high school years, groups like Steely Dan and Electric Light Orchestra have attempted to inject some creativity into rock style. In the process, ELO turned into bubble-gum celluloid some time ago, and Steely Dan drifted into the realm of jazz (or rock-jazz, as some like...
Critic Harold Rosenberg is absolutely right: "No artist is more relevant than Steinberg" [April 17]. To avoid boredom, he has doodled his way into the realm of the art world as a "serious" artist...
...Shawnee Indians, the jagged mountains of West Virginia were "a dark and bloody ground," a realm of ferocious evil spirits best avoided. But there was no hint of danger on a sunny morning last week when 51 steelworkers, carpenters and laborers clambered 168 ft. up scaffolding inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station near St. Marys, W. Va., a hamlet of 2,348 nestled between verdant hills and the Ohio River. When completed, the 450-ft. tower will cool water used by the generating plant before returning it to the river...
Still within the realm of comedy, let's move across the Channel, move up a hundred years, and move over to Winthrop House, to a joint Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players and Winthrop Drama Society Production--or rather, productions. This attraction is a double bill. One of the shows has not been presented here since 1875. It's an opera called Cox and Box, written by Arthur Sullivan in his pre-Gilbert Days. However, the opera in a sense led to the team's establishment. W.S. Gilbert, a critic for "Punch" magazine, wrote a nasty review of the show. He loved...