Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. A leading playwright of the theater of the absurd movingly displays his troubled spirit in a masochistic mosaic...
...THEATER...
...voice remained full of the old husky magic. Indeed, when Marlene Dietrich returned to Broadway for a six-week engagement, the only thing that was different from last year's show was the opening number, a torchy ballad called Look Me Over Closely. Not that anybody in the theater waits for her invitation...
...Laugh-In, the calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television. For one thing, each show is stitched together from about 350 snippets of video tape. Some of them-a flash of graffiti, for example, or a mugging face-last only an eighth of a second. Executive Producer...
...head of a six-man syndicate, Helmsley will take over the 12,271-unit project later this year. The 129-acre community, home to some 38,000 New Yorkers, also includes offices, banks, a post office, theater, library and a 100-store shopping center. When built by Metropolitan between 1938 and 1942, Parkchester cost $67 million. Even though it yielded $14.9 million in rents last year, Metropolitan has for some time yearned to unload it. New York City rent control has kept the top rent on a three-bedroom apartment to a bar gain $165 a month, even while taxes...