Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid by the CIA? Why are you speaking in this bourgeois theater?" That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man." Danny and some 2,500 Italian students turned out to jeer their former idol following trumped-up charges made by U.S. Communist Party Chief Gus Hall at a Moscow press conference. Hall claimed that Marcuse had been "exposed as working for the CIA since World...
Most nights, Moscow's Estrada Theater is alive and kicking with song-and-dance troupes. For the past two months, though, sellout crowds have packed the old hall to watch two men sit for hours at a table, each exquisitely immobile except for an occasional flick of the wrist. A whole line of swiveling chorines could not have elicited more excitement than those flicks, for the event was the world championship of chess, the No. 1 sport and all-round mania of the Soviet Union...
Some might disagree. Delacorte's Alice in Wonderland statue, built as a tribute to his late wife in 1959, is so popular a children's roosting spot in Central Park that it requires some $10,000 per year for maintenance. The Delacorte Theater, completed with the aid of $150,000 from the philanthropist, is the site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes...
Nude Frontier-There is a kind of reverse snobbism in the theater these days in which the drawing room apes the gutter and nudity is the ultimate in chic. Such plays can be crude (Che!), deviant (Geese) or playful (Hair). For a good part of the evening, Oh! Calcutta! is diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised when he devised the show. Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac...
...much word-of-mouth stimulation preceded opening night as to make the evening almost anticlimactic. The rumor was that Oh! Calcutta!, appropriately housed in an off-Broadway theater renamed Eden, would be a nude frontier in permissive theater. In an anticipatory dither, sophisticated and not so sophisticated New Yorkers rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July...