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...modern plumbing. Yet in inventiveness and impact alike, it somehow falls short. It falls short for one thing because it is so unmercifully long; for another, because it achieves no pervasive tone or attitude. It reupholsters the Oedipus story rather than reshapes it; it is too close to a stunt at the outset, too close to Sophocles at the end. And for all its merits, an intelligent production has actors who are rather at odds with their roles or at odds with each other. But perhaps The Infernal Machine suffers most of all simply for being a rewrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...contest was no stunt. It was proposed to the papers by the state police, stymied in their hunt for a masked man who shot Cohen at the door of his home during an attempted holdup. The prize money was posted by the authorities. Entrants were assured of anonymity and told to mark their forms with an identifying symbol so they could claim the prize if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Find the Killer | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Tokyo, Theater Manager Ryohei Tanaka sent 1,200 pairs of black lace panties to Tokyo cabaret girls, offered them free tickets to the movie Don't Go Near the Water if they showed up wearing the garments, ruefully hired a fashion model to salvage his misfired publicity stunt when not one girl showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Harvard sophomore was fined $35 in East Cambridge District Court yesterday for his part in a Lampoon stunt which consisted of the holdup of a phony Santa Claus in Harvard Square last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Prank Draws $35 Fine | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

...officer who made the arrest claimed that Thompson knocked down one passerby and broke another's glasses when he grabbed a money basket from Santa Claus, portrayed by another 'Poon candidate, during a Fool's Week stunt on Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Peon 'Fool' Pleads Innocent On Charges of Santa Assault | 12/7/1957 | See Source »

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