Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit to Red China and ready to head for Russia, when the Soviet ambassador rang up for an urgent interview. As Prince Norodom Sihanouk explained it to his fellow Cambodians at a rally last week, the Soviet ambassador "entered the drawing room where I was waiting, sat on a sofa with his legs crossed, lit a cigarette in a free and easy manner and started taking big puffs." Then, continued the Prince, "he started reading to me a note on a piece of old paper." The message: Sihanouk, stay home. The Soviet leaders were too busy to receive...
Seventeen-year-old Gavin Burke was watching his nubile sister. She threw her legs over a sofa arm, exposing cream white thighs and pink knickers. "Nice legs, hot stuff," said the Black Angel. "Stop that. She's your sister," replied the White Angel. Black Angel: "Remember last week, going past the bathroom? You looked." White Angel: "You're diseased. Degenerate." Black Angel: "Stop being so serious, I just said they're nice legs...
...fine sense of trivia. Shortly we discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment displaying anti-bourgeois scorn for neatly preserved possessions (their sofa is an automobile seat) and a flair for camp (wall cartoons of a trotting Flash Gordon and of Batman holding a tiger and wheezing "Whew!"). They talk like suburban eighth graders about Camus and psychoanalysis and how their generation doesn't know itself but can't accept the values...
...then came the British. U.S. parents had weathered Pat Boone's white-bucks period, the histrionics of Johnnie Ray, and the off-key mewings of Fabian, but this was something else again?four outrageous Beatles in high-heeled boots, undersized suits and enough hair between them to stuff a sofa. When they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, 68 million people, one of the largest TV audiences in history, tuned in to see what all the ruckus was about...
According to Hamlin, the Loeb has lost chairs, make-up, costumes, cigarette urns, pointings, a motion picture camera, a sofa, and many wallets, over the post four years...