Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made an undulating exit down a flight of stage steps two years ago, neatly curved (38-23-37) Singer Abbe Lane Cugat, appearing on NBC-TV's Xavier Cugat Show, took a humiliating tumble before her bandleader husband and goggle-eyed televiewers. Last week, claiming that the "defective, unsafe" steps had left her with a creaky knee and other locomotor impairments, Abbe, 27, hit NBC with a $600,000 suit for her injuries and loss of earnings. Cugie, 59, whose show was not renewed by NBC because Regular Lane then tumbled for other offers, joined Abbe in the courtroom...
...Crossley, 13, of Norristown, Pa.; Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver. And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination. The mellifluous pronouncer ("I give full value to each of the diacritical markings in Webster") was so overcome that he nearly left the stage himself...
Citation: "You have turned the words of our country's leading dramatists into incandescent stage productions...
...fine actress who wears sincerity like a cameo. A good girl in Bus Stop, raped, kicked and beaten in Peyton Place, a glossy career girl in The Best of Everything, she can project whatever is asked for with the professional competence of an actress who started on the stage when she was twelve (in Sidney Kingsley's The Patriots). "A lot of people who are stars never have time to work out what they are doing," says she. "Acting is important to me, and I believe it is important to the world...
...food and water at Tish 'ah Be'ab (commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.) Dr. Twerski describes as "murder,'' and the last six years have left him hollow-eyed and slightly sallow. But he is eagerly looking forward to the next stage: a year of internship at Milwaukee's Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by a three-year residency in psychiatry...