Word: scriptful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony was sickeningly familiar, from the lackluster prose of the speakers who never really moved the chilled crowd to the final rampages of a few Weatherman-types through the streets of downtown Washington. Even the cops were used to the script this time. It was easy to engage them in friendly conversation and they rarely got mad even as they methodically tossed the tear-gas canisters into crowds of chanting youths...
...that shapes our feelings. Ophuls' attitude is continuously present near the surface of La Ronde, constantly making itself felt when the relations between his characters change. And Ophuls judges right. Given the lightness of his characters-any one of whom one sees for a maximum of twenty minutes-a script built on their "love"-relations could easily have become excessively patterned, illustrative only of a rigid scheme of life...
...demonstrations even more ambitious than the Oct. 15 Moratorium. They would include rallies around the U.S., as before, but there could be as many as half a million marchers in Washington. If it seemed to be a scenario for confrontation, President Nixon had surely helped write the script as he penciled the Viet Nam address on his legal pads...
...ready for stockings? That is the crucial question here. I think the team is ready, and I think there are some good football players on the Tiger squad. The scoring will come early, and most of it will come from Princeton. Claude Balls couldn't have written a better script for this exciting, but sad, 21-17 Princeton...
Joseph Stein and Robert Russell, the authors of Take Me Along's book, have not shortchanged their musical of this sorrow. They have written a stunning, if not perfect, musical comedy book. As the script weaves gracefully around Bob Merrill's songs, the show remains wittily upbeat, all the while quietly asserting the downbeat aspects of the characters...