Word: spoiler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsor is the American Cancer Society. The commercial represents what might be called the new "spoiler" genre of public-service messages that are stirring the TV air and, at times, the American conscience. Urban America Inc has a commercial showing a ghetto child who calls, "Here, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. Nice kitty." The camera discovers a rat. Voiceover: "If your child mistook a rat for a cat, how would you feel? Our cities need help, your help. If you think there's nothing you can do to help, think harder...
Princeton's football team, rated earlier this season as a strong contender for league honors, must settle for the role of spoiler as it travels to New Haven Saturday to battle undefeated Yale...
Determined Spoiler. Faust is usually done as a Victorian morality play in which the Devil rightly gets his due. The New York City Opera's new production at Lincoln Center is a chiller in which an obstinate Mephistopheles stands as a towering match for the Almighty. From the moment when he first springs to life in Faust's laboratory, it is readily apparent that this is a Devil who bursts with the power of his own evil. He taunts God endlessly, even pulling an arrow brazenly from the chest of a statue of St. Sebastian to make wine...
...responsible for the transformation is Stage Director Frank Corsaro, 43, who believes that operatic tradition is often nothing more than a catalogue of yesterday's clichés. As he showed with his productions of La Traviata and Madama Butterfly, Corsaro is a determined spoiler when he confronts the creaking plots of traditional opera. If he wants to bring on familiar characters at unexpected moments, he does so. If he decides to invent minor characters, he does that...
...reason for the fuss this year is the possibility, exaggerated though it may be, that George Corley Wallace and his "spoiler" third party could conceivably capitalize on the proportional mathematics of the College and deny victory to either major-party candidate. Wallace would thus deadlock the results of the Nov. 5 voting, and -with just two weeks remaining before Inauguration Day -could throw the election into the House of Representatives. Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns says of the U.S. electoral process: "It's a game of Russian roulette, and one of these days we are going to blow...