Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left-handers are not the only ones who must negotiate a world designed for others. Take, for example, tall people-like myself-who find door lintels conveniently at forehead level, hotel beds several inches too short, and theater seats with just enough leg room to push one's knees into one's face. But that's not the worst of it: we also find that almost all the pretty women are too short...
...Orchids soon wilted. They sang their two big numbers at Manhattan's Paramount Theater, but when the audience screamed for more, they could offer nothing better than a reprise of Buddy's big song. Back West on the nightclub circuit, the group sometimes outnumbered the audiences; even in Jimmy Bowen's home town of Dumas, Texas (pop. 8,500), they could not fill the town auditorium. "We didn't have a follow-up act," drawls Jimmy today, "and that ruined our careers...
...staple after it won an Academy Award in 1951, most of Kurosawa's other films have not found their way to many American screens. Red Beard, like Pierrot Le Fou first shown in 1965 but just released in New York, is being presented at a special foreign-language theater with only a whisper of publicity. Thus, filmgoers across the country may once again miss a masterpiece by one of the world's great film makers...
...says McCowen. "I love the man very much." This kind of commitment to a character, McCowen feels, is the specialty of American acting, by which he considers himself strongly influenced. "American actors," he says, "may be sometimes lacking in technique, but they are never superficial. I think American theater has been a good influence on the English-more than they will admit. I found from the Americans that there was a great deal more to my job than I had realized...
...satirist. In Alexander Pope, Quennell has found another genius for a subject, though with him the difficulties are greater. The poet who wrote "the proper study of mankind is man" made no great study of himself, whereas Byron was his own biographer and the actor-manager of his own theater in every line he wrote. The clues to Pope's nature are to be found in the quality of his age, with its political-theological drama. Quennell superbly evokes this quality in a biography that spans Pope's first 40 years, ending in 1728 with the appearance...