Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hybrid Vehicle Development Act on the books (and when are the feds going to do more than press release it, hmm?) - he tapped out a letter to Amy Carter. Since the adults were being so obtuse, why didn't Amy and her chums - the consciences of the future - stage an alternative-vehicle regatta on the White House lawn? In due time a postcard made its way to Brown's Mill with a picture of Amy on one side and a message on the other: "Thank you for being my friend, Amy Carter...
...Kentucky venture was Richard Nixon's latest tentative and gingerly stage of reemergence, certainly not into public life but at least, for brief moments, into the view finders of public attention. A year ago he sat for the David Frost television interviews. Last winter he went to Hubert Humphrey's funeral. He and Pat flew to New York and the Bahamas, making small banter with photographers at stops along the way. They threw a party back at Casa Pacifica for some 300 returned Viet Nam P.O.W.s. Nixon also gave a party to celebrate the publication of his memoirs...
...swirl of red ribbons fills the stage, the dancers commanding them moving delicately through the ever changing patterns they create with the long, scarlet strands of silk. Nine women glide serenely across the stage, costumed to represent lotus flowers, hoops just above their ankles, hiding their feet and representing the pads of the flowers. Magically, they create a lovely imitation of flowers floating in a gently flowing stream...
...Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter--What else? A Porter revue. Charles Playhouse Stage III, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Friday and Saturday at 7 and 9:30, Sunday...
...Daisies (1957) and two later collections of essays treated these and other national preoccupations comically but gently. She did not topple idols but admired them from a safe distance. Her pose was that of the indefatigable but bumbling striver, chirping away about her supposed inability to stage a dinner party, cope with preternaturally wisecracking children or conform to the feminine image conveyed in glossy women's magazines. If any malice was in her, she kept it out of her prose...