Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantage. In Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel ballroom, a record 1,000 delegates from 14 states were challenged on grounds ranging from racial discrimination to improper selection procedures. McCarthy hoped to increase his delegate strength by preventing hundreds of Humphrey supporters from being seated and to set the stage for dramatic floor fights this week. His challenges to the Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and Indiana units were rejected. Though the Mississippi delegation was left unseated on the ground of racial bias and replaced by a half-white, half-black group, the decision hardly amounted to a McCarthy...
Fontanne's pet goose did not bite him. "I suppose he knew it was my birthday," said Alfred Lunt, 76. The quiet celebration took place on the Lunts' 110-acre country place in the rolling dairyland west of Milwaukee, where they have lived since their last major stage appearance in The Visit eight years ago. But the two troupers are still not ready to ring down the final curtain. Says Mrs. Lunt: "I'd probably swing back into my job if something really good came along." Says Mr. Lunt: "It's not over yet, you know...
...craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle the deluge. Water cascaded across the stage, splashed like a waterfall over the concrete wall that fronts the orchestra pit, then began to wash up the aisles into the amphitheater. Finally, the audience had to be sent home...
...outside Santa Fe this year, a dramatic new feature has jutted up in a matter of months. It is the Santa Fe Opera Company's new theater, a bold cross between an open-air arena and a Pueblo fortress. It has no side walls, and its see-through stage provides the action with a striking natural backdrop of dancing hills. Above the orchestra seats, a red wood-beamed adobe canopy sweeps up ward, then breaks off abruptly to re veal a broad area of New Mexico...
Genghis Cohn, a Yiddish music-hall comedian, is on his last stage. The stage is Auschwitz, and his audience is a German firing squad. But he seizes the opportunity for a last punch line. He turns his naked rump to the executioners and says: "Kush mir in tokhes!," which in Yiddish means "Kiss my ass!" Herr Captain Schatz, the man who has been placidly shooting Jews down on order, is so shaken that he accords Cohn the unusual respect of examining the corpse and ordering it clothed. Seeing an opportunity to keep his act going, Cohn's ghost slips...