Word: thun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. George Gallup, 82, quintessential quantifier of American public opinion for more than five decades on issues ranging from toothpaste tastes to presidential preferences; of a heart attack; in Thun, Switzerland. An Iowa farm boy who grew restless on a summer job interviewing readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he devised, for a Ph.D. thesis, sampling techniques that sought to account for the diversity of potential respondents; he put these techniques to work for newspapers, then for advertising...
...Lynch's sets and Nancy Thun's costumes, an array of right, simple pastel designs, match the mood of the musical perfectly. Director Alvin Epstein and choreographer Kathryn Posin have thankfully kept the production loose and lively. If the opening number is a little ragged, and if the second act tends to sag a bit from loss of momentum, at least The Boys From Syracuse avoids that joyless Teutonic precision that seems to infect a lot of large scale Broadway productions these days...
...technical aspects of the production are also uniformly excellent. Nancy Thun's costumes--particularly Kimmer's white leisure suit and Elton John-style glasses--contribute to the southern Californian atmosphere without smothering the play in stereotypes. The music between scenes provides some fine, although not classic, examples of old-style, sloppy, thumping, twanging country-western blues...