Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women who had their radios on heard a chilling announcement cut into the Belgian broadcasting system's light-music program: there was trouble at the Bitter Heart, and fire engines, asbestos suits, fire extinguishers were needed. Outside, a 300-ft. plume of bilious-looking yellow smoke was already rising languidly above the mine shaft...
...cameras will go inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo, campaigning for President (on NBC) with "four buckets of cigar smoke," hopes to "lull the regular parties into a false sense of security by repeated attempts to clarify the issues...
...frightening import rise, narrowed the trade gap to a monthly $45 million, and restored gold reserves. But with retail prices up ten points over last year, it has not stopped inflation. Last week the inching, pinching process of deflation brought violence and strikes to Britain's smoke-stained Midlands...
...play comes alive with terrifying force from Frank's use of most of the old tricks of staging--devils appearing in bombs of smoke, weirdly grotesque Things, lavish costumes, smoldering fires, phosphorescent vials, and dramatic lighting effects. To avoid the inevitable lags, the director has chosen to set the pitch high and to raise it by alternating the nerve-wracking tragedy of Faust and Margaret with Mephistopheles' comic moments and violent crowd scenes. Unbelievably, he succeeds...
...half. So he prefaced it with a short mood piece for its Boston and Broadway runs last fall. He stated at the time that it should not be lengthened, and was too honest a dramatist just to pad it out, as Tennessee Williams obviously did with Summer and Smoke. After the play failed, a re-examination led him to revise and expand it a bit; but the expansion into two acts, including a couple of important new scenes, adds only about ten minutes to the running time. The Wellesley company is giving the new version its public premiere. Both...