Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folly pursues us at every stage of our lives. If someone seems wise, it is only because his follies befit his age and his position...
...love and redemption" in a California mining town, chiefly because it went well with Red Rocks' rugged mountain setting. Director Herbert Graf altered all references to California to read Colorado, hired Soprano Eleanor Steber to sing the role of Minnie the barkeep. To help fill his cavernous outdoor stage, he hired a covered wagon and a troupe of horses from a 4-H club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down...
...same names, though in lesser concentration. Playboy magazine, having been refused permission to use Chicago's Soldier Field, has contracted for Chicago Stadium (seating 20,000). The likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, Stan Kenton and Cool Comic Mort Sahl (see SHOW BUSINESS) will perform from a revolving stage, facing an audience decked out in souvenir Playboy jazz blazers and skimmers...
...mission was not to fly. As the keystone of AEC's Project Rover, it was supposed to determine the feasibility of nuclear rockets. Though AEC has never defined just what it considers "feasible," Dr. Schreiber has hinted that a satisfactory nuclear rocket must be a single-stage vehicle with enough thrust to escape from the earth with 15% of its take-off weight as payload. Now Kiwi-A has apparently demonstrated that this kind of power is feasible...
Ford was scarcely to be a model of good labor relations, he set the stage for what Bruckberger thinks of as maritally minded U.S. capitalism. Like any married couple, U.S. capital and labor argue, but the goal is cooperative fertility, with more wealth and a better life for all. This is the U.S.'s "third way" out of Europe's venomous class-struggle impasse...