Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saroyan was the U.S. father of the unmade play. The Time of Your Life was not carpentered but spilled out within the boozy confines of a San Francisco waterfront bar. It is a combination of mood music and action painting. In 1939, this was as disconcerting and puzzling to playgoers as Harold Pinter's plays have proved to be to more recent theater audiences...
...comedian, though he is a pathetically inept dancer and his jokes fall flat. At one point, Joe (James Broderick) the café philosopher who dominates the stage, puts 27 sticks of gum in his mouth because he has always wanted to do it. When Saroyan says, "In the time of your life, live," one realizes almost eerily that there, 30 years ago, the cry was first raised about "doing your own thing...
...magazine," he explains in the current issue of Rolling Stone, "then another one'll get mad. People don't understand that the press, they just use you to sell papers. And, in a certain way, that's not bad, but when they misquote you all the time, and when they just use you to fill in some story, it hurts because you think you were just played for a fool...
Having cleared up one mystery for his fans, Dylan turned to another-the new and notable richness and resonance of his voice in his most recent LP, Nashville Skyline (TIME, April 11). His explanation: "When I stopped smoking, my voice changed so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. That's true. I tell you, you stop smoking those cigarettes, and you'll be able to sing like Caruso...
SEVENTH DAY. The hunt was over. Deer spotted: 17. Arrows shot: 0. "Boy, those whitetail are really something," said Fred as he headed home. "They're just smarter than hell. Reminds me of the time I was hunting mountain goat in Alberta with Bud Gray, the chairman of Whirlpool. After about three hours of panting up those icy mountains, he rested on his bow and said: 'Tell me we're having fun, will...