Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find, and he picks priggish Fleandar, a wig-curler in the guise of a nobleman. From there on, the plot takes every traditional turn imaginable, with ghosts peering from balconies and men dressed as women. By the end, of course, the good Hanswurst gains the hand of the sweet Columbina, Odario wins the coveted Stone of Saxony (a jewel of gigantic proportions), and the cast applauds its own fortunes in the rousing finale ("I love happy endings, they are rather nice...
...Fantasticks is a light delight, sweet enough for the softest tooth in Cambridge. The musical is generally described as whimsy, but it is more than that: it is willful whimsy, the tale of two young lovers in the silly season of spring, and then in the sober season of cynicism. Both moods are deliciously portrayed by seven actors and one actress in the Adams House Drama Society production of The Fantasticks, which began its two weekend run last night...
Born. To Geraldine Page, 39, who played Tennessee Williams' fading beauty in Sweet Bird of Youth, and Rip Torn, 34, her third husband and co-star in last year's revival of O'Neill's Strange Interlude: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan...
...night sky glowed orange, and the air was filled with an acrid stench. "That smell used to make me deathly sick," says one Morrow County resident, "but now it doesn't bother me at all." And why should it? It has become the smell of wealth, the sweet odor of Ohio's first oil boom since the turn of the century...
This bit of bravado did not seriously damage Raphael's reputation, and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves grew to seem the epitome of Victorianism, sweet as treacle and finicky as a lace antimacassar. Too pretty, too pious and too much concerned with the past, read the 20th century's indictment. Pre-Raphaelite prices sank so low that in 1955, one work, Ford Madox...