Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter. A man whose birthday it is not finds himseIf the guest of honor at its celebration and behaves as if he were a corpse at his own wake. Which well might be the case. The early Pinter puzzler is brought to the Broadway stage with an American cast
...Stiff Price. The road's progress outside Peru is also impressive. Though Ecuador and Colombia have not gone beyond the planning stage, Venezuela has already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after...
...taxi driver knows the latest back stage gossip from the opera house. The maid hums Schubert lieder while brewing coffee. The shopkeeper can debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next...
...does he do it for the money alone, which comes to about $5,000 a segment. The tropical TV locations make it all a working vacation. "When you reach the sere and yellow stage," as Evans sums it up,"why not? There is so little fun left elsewhere today. Broadway is so anxious, so grim...
...game was fast paced from the very beginning, with the puck seldom stopping between blue lines. Simultaneous penalties were assessed twice, but it was a holding call against B.U.'s Mickey Gray that set the stage for Harvard's first goal...