Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical called The Straw Hat Revue opened at Manhattan's Ambassador Theater. The show, which cost $8,000 to put on Broadway, featured such future stars as Danny Kaye, Imogene Coca, Alfred Drake and a young dancer named Jerome Robbins. This week -- 50 years later and four blocks south, at the Imperial Theater -- Broadway welcomes another revue, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, with another cast of young hopefuls. But everything else about this show is bigger, riskier and very late '80s. For one thing, its co-sponsor is a Japanese liquor firm. For another, it carries an all-time-high ticket price...
DURING the Chinese New Year celebration in the Freshman Union about two weeks ago, most of the dining hall workers were wearing straw Chinese-style hats, but both of the checkers had taken them off. They explained, almost sheepishly, to the students passing through that they were supposed to wear the hats, but took them off because they felt silly...
During that dinner, one of the workers told a student she knew that if he thought the straw hats were bad, he should wait until the next week when the workers had to dress as cows and milkmaids for National Dairy Week...
...even tolerant of his blackhearted men. The title story is the most ambitious, a frightening descent into deep Southern swamps. But a dippy little yarn called Mississippi is just as satisfying. It is about a man who loses his girl because . . . well, because, like a horse with a straw hat on, he kept pausing to take in the foliage...
...buildings seem to have been built to complement the weather--either white with red roofs or modern wood and glass. On a lot of the streets, driving is forbidden, but you can rent a horse and cart. On a clear night, lying in the back of a straw-filled cart, listening to the horse clomp down the streets past restaurants, shops and little private ski chalets, you can see every star...