Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JENNIE fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic impresario of a husband. Mary Martin is in top form, but she is the only thing that is in this bottom-drawer musical...
...explosion, from a leaking gas tank in a commissary storeroom beneath the audience, had blasted a sheet of flame up through 128 of the Coliseum's choicest box seats, catapulting men and women-many still in their seats-in blazing arcs through the air. Slabs of concrete the size of small cars went up 50 ft., then slammed down on a crowded section of folding chairs below the box seats, crushing dozens and trapping many more in tons of debris...
...they were steered straight onto chow lines, where cooks from the German-based U.S. Seventh Army had a total of 20,000 piping-hot steaks and tons of French fries ready. At Rhein-Main, outside Frankfurt, one mess sergeant baked a 200-lb. cake in the shape of a tank...
...NATO plans. While France's Charles de Gaulle stub bornly impedes cooperation and while the British ponder their own role, West Germany enthusiastically cooperates with U.S. military planning. Symbol of this close relationship is the cluster of five military agreements signed in August, which envisions a German-American tank for the 1970s, joint development of missile cruisers and jet helicopters, plus an ambitious combined research project on new weapons...
Jennie joins Gypsy and Sophie as another of Broadway's disenchanted evenings devoted to the theme that showbiz is woebiz. The latest musical fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit, and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic, footloose, hot-air impresario of a husband. Amid the encircling gloom, only Mary Martin shines with an inextinguishable light...