Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME Magazine of Sept. 28 contained a gorgeous 12-page section of color photographs depicting the fantastic amount of construction which has overwhelmed New York City in the last five years. Page after page showed superb photographs of vast new skyscrapers, airline terminals, Lincoln Center, housing developments, slum clearance projects, power plants, big stores, all of which have transformed the face of our city. We congratulate TIME on a strikingly beautiful job of color printing, photography, writing and editing and research...
Political analysts just love Connecticut. They think of it as a sort of microcosm, if only because it has a little bit of everything: dreary industrial cities, picturesque towns and superb suburbia. It has a certain amount of agriculture-if tough turkeys, and apples used mostly for bland cider, can be counted. It has roughly 360,000 registered Democrats, 360,000 registered Republicans and 600,000 independents-and the analysts adore independents. Connecticut is small but heavily populated: at its widest stretch, it is less than 100 miles across; within its modest boundaries live some 2,500,000 people...
...know, I've only summarized. But it's stupid to give reasons for comic genius, when you can give a snatch of the comedy itself. I don't have space even to mention the superb Shakespeare bit--easily the most sustained piece of comedy in the show. But surely the burden of my message is clear. Beyond the Fringe is great. Beyond the Fringe is terrific. Beyond the Fringe is the show not to miss this year...
...beat Weatherly, Gretel will have to be superb. All along, the challenger has looked good on the outside, from the cut of her new mainsail to the long curve of her bow. But her weather helm had caused enough concern to signal last week's mast shift. If the shift works, Skipper Jock Sturrock and Gretel's crew will be sailing a new boat; if it does not, the Australians will remain hapless in unruly seas...
...middle of town, with the chauffeur sitting up front." The other girls grin. "Really? And where do you meet?" "Oh," says Sophie grandly, "he's taken a flat for us." The enemy closes in. "Ha! You expect us to believe that? What's the address?" Sophie is superb. "Number Six, Place Violet," she announces with a shrug...