Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. Gwen Verdon, danseuse distinguée of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer seeking a wagon for her unhitched star. Bob Fosse's choreography pumps vitality into Neil Simon's flabby book...
...handful of youngsters who actively oppose the nation's draft seem intent on making a public display of their protest. So far, the public has been remarkably forbearing of their demonstrations, but last week the Vietniks picked the wrong place to stage a protest: South Boston. There, the predominantly Irish inhabitants not only retain a good bit of the rough and tumble of their immigrant ancestors but take most unkindly to unpatriotic displays. Trouble was in the air as eleven Viet Nam demonstrators reached the steps of the South Boston courthouse, where two of them calmly burned their draft...
Dent in the Backlog. Putting fluorides to work on a test basis, the Navy has adopted a three-stage treatment. First, each patient is given a basin, a toothbrush, a small cup of pumice paste containing stannous fluoride, and a five-minute lecture on how to proceed. He brushes his teeth for ten minutes. Next, he is plopped into the dentist's chair. A technician spends three to five minutes air-drying his teeth and applying a 10% stannous fluoride solution. Third, the patient gets up to 15 minutes of instruction in how to make daily...
...armory; the gilt and crimson interior has become a tawdry relic of bygone splendor. The grimy walls are veined with ominous cracks, the plaster is flaking, the gold leaf is peeling, the faded red carpeting is frayed and splotched. The creaking red velvet seats are worn slick and the stage floor is pitted and warped. Backstage, the dingy corridors are cluttered with props and tarpaulins. In Caruso's old dressing room, illuminated by a naked light bulb, cracks in the window have been plugged with paper and Scotch tape. When a bevy of ballerinas swept onstage recently, they stirred...
...years-now they want to buy them!" Among other items sold: 15 pairs of Caruso's flesh-colored stockings (at $15 per pair), dressing-room doors ($10), brass spittoons ($25), wall sconces ($15 to $75), chandeliers ($500), columns, banisters, hat trees, and several hundred planks from the stage floor...