Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is Peter Luke's deft dramatization of Frederick Rolfe's book about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who in his fantasies becomes the second English Pope. Alec McCowen's performance has been called one of the major theatrical events of the decade...
ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters, the first, a corrosively perceptive satire by Elaine May, cleverly staged like a TV-contest game of life; the second, by Terrence McNally, about an overage draftee commandingly played by James Coco...
That may or may not be so. Whatever he is up to, it is uncharacteristically solitary for a man to whom all the world was, quite literally, his stage. It is difficult to believe that there will not be some sort of second...
...Agnew] has got to whip down there and have another made. That's $700 or $800." There was quite a bit of Dirksen hyperbole in that, and Judy Agnew was quick to set the record straight. "The most expensive gown I own is my inaugural ball gown," the Second Lady protested. "That cost under $500, and I don't expect to pay that much again for a long time. I wear my clothes over and over again...
...Manhattan, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously vetoed the Penn Central Company's second bid to build a $100 million office tower above Grand Central Terminal. To build it the company would either have to destroy Grand Central's facade (a superlative example of the ornate Beaux Arts style and a splendid climax to the long sweep of lower Park Avenue) or crowd it with a bland, impersonal slab set only 30 feet behind it. Either plan, the commission ruled, was unacceptable in a city already too poor in dramatic vistas. The commission's decision...