Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal attempts an inner journey through mood, psyche and character, but merely creates a transparent character in a sketchy play. What makes Jimmy more winning than his fate is Dustin Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality...
Chickened Out. The decision of whether or not to print words that most readers still consider obscene is one that will not just go away. Four-letter words, and elaborations on them, have become a tool of protest politics and almost de rigueur occurrences on stage, in movies, in books and in the public vocabulary of many celebrities...
...Crouch Temple glow with a lonely halo in the Los Angeles mist. Central Avenue, not far from the scene of the 1965 Watts riots, is quiet. But inside the temple, a converted theater, the night is alive. Some 2,000 people-black, white and brown-are turned toward the stage, crying "Hallelujah" and "God be praised!" For more than an hour the tension has been building up. Testimonies, gospel songs, pledges, blessings, and more songs-a writhing, Presleyan, shirt-open gospel rock driven home by an organ, drums and piano combo. Women are swaying in the aisles, men clapping...
...assistant ministers, and a handful of trusted aides are on the road, moving from meeting to meeting in a caravan of five huge moving vans brightly labeled "A. A. Allen Revivals." Advance men have prepared the way for them, enlisting local ministers, mostly from Pentecostal churches, to share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures...
...press secretaries whose job is to disguise the truth and to avoid straight questions." In sum, Dimbleby felt that Nixon had drawn "not as big a crowd as Kennedy would have and not as hostile a crowd probably as L.B.J." What the British had witnessed, he concluded, was "another stage in the so-called de-monsterization of Nixon - that's what the American press calls it -discovering that this man, of whom they thought so ill, does, in fact, have some merit. Though, of course, he is still an untested President...