Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson taps a rich vein of comedy in four playlets that deal with sex on the stage, sex in middle age, as a parental concern, as a dimming memory. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard give a high polish to each nugget of humor...
Manhattan supports four contemporary-art museums, plus a score of enterprising galleries-and many of the Modern Museum's spiritual children stage exhibits more modern than its own. All the same, Lowry believes that the Modern is capable of outpacing them all. This will not be done merely by displaying firsts. Bringing a scholar's eye to the contemporary scene, he will rely on the museum's comprehensive collection of paintings, sculpture, films and architectural designs, hopes to use it to make tomorrow's innovators more understandable and enjoyable by placing them in a historical context...
...held off this time till the next night, announcing: "We got a call from the Stage Delicatessen after the show. They wanted to hang her tongue in the window...
Died. Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), 74, U.S. dramatist and one of the firsi to see the American stage as a vehicle for social criticism; of pneumonia; in Southampton, England. Short, peppery and prolific, Rice despised the frothy shows so in vogue during his youth ("I'm interested in being realistic about life") and used the theater to get his strident views across. Over the years, he bitingly attacked everything from fascism to automation, theater critics, social smugness, TV blacklisting and militarism in more than 50 full-length plays. Only a few of them (1919's On Trial...
Much more than trade depends on the successful outcome of the Kennedy Round. Historically, it represents a last stage in undoing the damage to the world economy caused by the protectionism of the Depression in the '30s. Its failure, coming on top of Europe's new climate of economic nationalism fostered by Charles de Gaulle, could well turn the free world back toward commercial-and political-policies of suspicion and mistrust...