Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "Fierce, Funny and Far Out," a sampling of contemporary avant-garde theater, with William Saroyan commenting on scenes from Eugene Ionesco's The Killer, Edward Albee's The Sand Box, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, and his own The Time of Your Life...
...made for some other country. Perhaps this part is best kept the furthest away from any Congressman's sight. In three sub sections there are three notions of a proper unifying concept. Stress is placed successively on language, literature and then composition. There is also a head-in-the-sand-type request for a 1 to 25 student-teacher ratio in teaching composition. After a fine beginning there is this general lack of enthusiasm, focus and the failure to present firm principles and standards...
...Nita Naldi, 59, who as a girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling...
...enacted every Sunday on Sydney's 27 beaches. Only an estimated one in ten of the city's 2,000,000 people goes to church on a summer Sunday, and Australia's Open Air Campaigners have grown adept at stalking the remainder in the sun and sand...
...Pitch: Adventure. Sometimes the Campaigners enact David and Goliath, with Biblical costumes and hurtling stone; sometimes a red Indian wriggles across the sand to abduct the settler's daughter, leading up to the punch line: "Jesus always pays our ransom." The first step before each production is snaring the children. The pitch is announced as Adventure Time, and what is in effect a Sunday-school session is tricked out with puppets, magicians, quick-sketch artists and ventriloquists. The moppets' roars of approval bring the adults and teen-agers swarming around in a crowd that averages 500. After about...