Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start, you know after the first five minutes what the outcome will be-and it will not matter." Of all the puppets on the Broadway stage-the psychology-prattlers and so-ciology-spouters, the junkies, the drunks, the rebellious adolescents, the child-eating moms, the vicious generals and sweet-souled "liberals," the organization men who want to "sell out" and the staunch little women who won't, the inarticulate minorities and their articulate champions -of all these, the most significant are the puppets maneuvered by Tennessee Williams. At times they have been stunningly lifelike, and once or twice Puppeteer...
Thus a capacity audience at Brussel's Royal Opera House was introduced to one of the most demented ballets ever staged: Choreographer Maurice Bejart's Such Sweet Thunder, set to music by Duke Ellington. Originally written for Canada's Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Thunder is a 14-part suite obscurely inspired by a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder." Ellington's musical rogue's gallery glimpses of Shakespearean heroes and heroines in turn inspired Choreographer Bejart to paste together a 45-minute dance work...
Fringe Benefit. In St. Paul, the Minnesota Industrial Commission handed down the ruling that Elma Sweet, 62, was just as much on the job when she slipped on an icy walk during a coffee break as any "employee who is allowed to smoke or blow his nose...
That morale did not recover until, weeks later, "in one slow, sweet cool of dawn, we saw against the horizon the low, purple silhouette of the hill of Montauk Point, Long Island . . . We heard the hoarse rattle of anchor chain through the hawsepipes. We were home...
...notably the Marquis de Sade). It.was also the Age of Enlightenment, and medical science was eagerly enlisted in the service of love. Late in Louis XIV's reign, a certain Dr. Venette soberly advised that dried Egyptian crocodile kidneys pounded into a powder and diluted in sweet wine made the perfect aphrodisiac...