Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brainerd Holmes. Ambitious workers−from hard-hat musclemen to round-shouldered slipstick artists were already clamoring to work under the Brooklyn-born straw boss...
...Straw...
...draft for a film script about circus elephants. They are taught to dance by Choreographer George Balanchine but are shamed by being made huge fools of. "Later that night the wisest of them, extending his trunk, licks up a dying cigar butt, and drops it in fresh straw. All 36 elephants die in the fire. Their huge souls, light as clouds, settle like doves, in the great secret cemetery back in Africa-and perhaps God speaks, tenderly...
...hackneyed, in spite of the familiarity of the song. Kiss Me Kate at South Shore offers summer theatre at its finest, inviting just a little more suspension of belief than usual to make a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Broad comedy combines well with the frothy, good humored quality of straw-hat circuit musicals to sustain a mood that permits little severe criticism. In summer theatre, one submits to enjoyment of performances which might at other times seem less than satisfactory...
...commendable that straw-hat theatres are investigating the possibilities of off-Broadway drama in real off-Broadway settings, but until they ignore such worthless items as "The Two-Headed Baby" and learn to discriminate wheat from chaff, they will only be doing great disservice to a medium they want to foster...