Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEATER...
...present, an orgy is mandatory. Sweaty, tangled heaps of men and women kiss and fondle each other from head to toe, all the while uttering erotic moans and groans. Though the audience holds no Equity cards, it is urged to join the act, in the name of "participatory, environmental theater." Sibilant seductive whispers invite the spectators to dance. Some playgoers are gin'gerly about it; others are the life of the orgy...
Behind all this are the theories of French Actor-Director Antonin Artaud, who held that the modern theater ought to involve and provoke gut reactions from audiences. The result, however, is a drama that is shamelessly alive from the waist down and shamefully dead from the neck up. Eloquence of speech is abandoned for voodoo gibber. The play is reduced to a trampoline for directorial acrobatics. Condemned to extemporaneous self-expression, the actors display no sense that they have mastered their craft. The audience participation destroys illusion without enhancing reality...
Distraction is not distinction, and the theater's dead past is littered with new directions that were wrong directions...
...urging stockholders to reject Loew's bid, Commercial Credit argued that the theater-and-hotel operator, besides being a far smaller company, was in fields incompatible with its own. By contrast, said Commercial Credit Chairman L. S. Willard Jr., a merger with Control Data would be a "natural fit." As evidence, he pointed to his company's own budding involvement in computer operations. Already well diversified, with subsidiaries in insurance and manufacturing lines (printing presses, bearings, meat packing), Commercial Credit last January set up a data-processing operation in a joint venture with Radio Corp. of America...