Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection contains more than two million playbills, posters, views and plans of theatres--including the only known floor plan of Ford's Theatre as it existed when Lincoln was shot--portraits of players, and manuscripts dealing with the history of the stage...
...major loves during the course of the film, a super-sophisticated Italian movie star and a super-straight insurance man. As soon as she enters these men's lives, Charity becomes engulfed in romantic cliché and extraneous musical numbers. Romantic ballads (some not originally in the stage version), a marching ode to love, and production numbers concerned with psychedelic religions and swank night clubs simply do not mesh with the picture's original motif. Luckily, most of these songs are splendid in themselves--but the ultimate effect is one of uneasiness...
...office take that followed left Leven's backers feeling skittish. Benjamin Ginsberg & Sons --one of the two principal backers-- threatened to throw Leven Enterprises out of the building, which Ginsberg owns. But Leven, who himself owns the equipment, furnishings, and stage inside the buildings, refused to go unless he took the whole cast and crew with him. The resulting negotiations turned up in a Boston After Dark article by Larry Stark. So, there it all was, right out there in front of the public. Finally, Leven ended the stalemate by accepting more of the financial responsibility. And so--in accord...
...meter, a crude galvanometer that supposedly translates slight variations in voltage into a measurement of emotional reaction. The interviews, which are conducted by trained Scientologists, sound like a cross between psychoanalysis and an encounter with a Zen master, all in the language of computer technology. To reach an advanced stage of enlightenment may cost a believer as much as $15,000 for tuition, equipment and lodging at Scientology centers...
America's Burden. Under the VAT sys tem, companies at each stage of manufacture add a standard percentage of tax - 11% in West Germany, 12.5% in Denmark - to the difference between what they paid for the materials and the price at which their products are sold. Consumers ultimately pay the en tire levy as part of the price of almost everything they buy. In Paris, used car dealers drove through town last week in protest against the new 25% VAT "luxury" rate on their cars. In Amsterdam, a restaurant owner, cooks and waiters recently staged a mock funeral procession...