Word: sandboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most students, in fact, have forgotten that Savio at that time denounced the student government as "the sandbox" and pointed to the ASUC president as a helpless and forgotten figure on the sidelines. Today, president Dan McIntosh is the chief arbiter between the administration and the strikers...
...utterly wild a scheme that we can't resist!" So saying, the management of the London Symphony canceled 20 recording sessions, five concerts, refused an invitation to the Athens Festival and, with the abandon of undergrads leaving for spring vacation, bundled the orchestra off to that big sandbox in the sun, Daytona Beach, Fla. They are the attraction at the first Florida International Music Festival, by far the most culturally ambitious festival in the Southeast...
...houses of haute couture. "All those boots and helmets!" she crackled in Manhattan. "Fashion is being taken over by the pansy boys. We're being made to look like Lolitas or lion tamers. Who, over 20, wants to look as though she just came out of a sandbox...
Malcolm. The quest for a father, the spectral son, the possessive bitch-mother, the world as supreme castrater -these are themes, roles and patterns that have obsessed Edward Albee from the days of The Sandbox and The American Dream to Virginia Woolf and Tiny Alice. In this adaptation of James Purdy's novel Malcolm, he finds all his own vintage wines in another man's cellar. The trouble is that these wine bottles are now empty, and the wind whistles over them all evening with a low, monotonous, deadly moan...
...Cacoyannis, who has done better (in The Trojan Women, Zorba the Greek) and knows better. The play's plot and characters are assembled from the Kopit-Albee playmaking kit. Bump's grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little-girl dresses that the sex-hungry baby sitter...