Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEATER...
...floors. It houses 15 gigantic rehearsal rooms, three organ studios, 84 practice rooms, 30 private studios, two recital halls (including Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's acoustically superb home for chamber music) and limitless vistas of plush, carpeted corridors and lobbies. There is also the thousand-seat Juilliard Theater. Its pop-up ceiling can be raised or lowered (up for big orchestras, down for small ensembles). Its pit stage is bigger than the New York State Theater's across the street...
...proving that his homosexuality would palpably interfere with the efficiency of the agency's operations. The New York Times, which for years shied from the word homosexual, in June permitted a homosexual writing under his own name, Freelance Critic Donn Teal, to contribute an article on "gay" themes in theater. In large cities, homosexuals have reached tacit agreements with police that give them the de facto right to their own social life...
There wasn't much in Vixen's appearance then to suggest that it was any different from the movies being shown next door to it (Hungry Thighs and Sweet Honey) . The posters outside the theater just showed a healthily panting woman, her face partially blocked by a huge "X RATING-NO ONE UNDER IS ADMITTED." The ticket seller was more interested in hustling some of the people from the Hungry Thighs crowd to Vixen than in checking the age of potential viewers...
...Skin Flick Heap." From there on, the professional advertising machine went to work to produce a genuine hit. A woman with a breathy voice made a series of subtle ads ("Vixen-is she woman or animal"-pant-pant) for the local radio stations. By August the theater owners knew they were riding a good thing. So many tourists were flocking to the show that the owners could jack the prices to twice their original level...