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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held and played with the audience through his 45-minute monlogue with the comic sense and gyrating energy of a stand-up comic. But his jokes are corny, deliberately innocent of the contrivance of real jokes or comic routines. And we laugh because he laughs, that infectious, throaty, all-teeth laugh that quakes from his chest. He wants us to be happy, with the urgent eagerness of a child wanting to share a joke with his mother...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: A Wistful Smile and a Pucker | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

Winston Ntshona, with his missing teeth, child-like face, wistful smile and pucker, is a slower character. He chews through a heavy accent. He thinks slowly, with his body. When he is considering something, we can see the thought travelling sluggishly up through his body, from his heavy limbs, through his fidgetting torso, up to his frowning puzzled pucker. He seems a combination between what Kael described in Brando--his emotions originating deep in his chest, then reverberating slowly to the extremities and finally to the face--and John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a dull-witted...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: A Wistful Smile and a Pucker | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...journey. What you seek is to be possessed." Earlier this year Ashley was totally possessed by the role of Maggie during her highly acclaimed New York performance in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Then cast as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's 1942 comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, she showed herself to be equally consumed during the show's 2½-month tour through Birmingham, Washington. D.C., and Boston. ("It's the hardest thing I've ever done," she said at one point. "You can't act an idea.") In New York, alas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 22, 1975 | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...TIME'S cover. Leonid Brezhnev proudly shows his gold teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 25, 1975 | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...have been in many cities in Russia and have noticed thousands of his comrades with teeth capped, all in white metal (probably stainless steel). There will always be haves and have nots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 25, 1975 | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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