Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Joe Layton (No Strings). A Katharine Hepburn movie, Summertime, which was adapted from a Shirley Booth play, The Time of the Cuckoo, is being re-adapted for the theater by Richard Rodgers and his new collaborator, Stephen Sondheim, the lyricist for Gypsy and West Side Story. Another Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance play will be the musical of Clifford Odets' durable Golden Boy, which opened in 1937, became a movie in 1939, was revived on Broadway in 1952, and is still on its feet after out-of-town troubles with direction and script. Sammy Davis-he has dropped...
...sophisticated French pursuit of paint as paint-tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...
Barry spent most of his week at his Washington apartment, where he began to tinker with the machinery that would propel his $15 million campaign for the presidency. Among other things, he decided to kick off the campaign with a mid-August speech in his "lucky town" -Prescott, Ariz., where he launched both of his successful Senate campaigns...
...studio were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks of color, like atoms locked together in the Tinker Toy of their own energy...
Since the test began one morning last month, when an F-104 jet from nearby Tinker Air Force Base sonic-boomed over the city, the FAA has been: haled into federal court on two injunction suits, one filed by Plumber Woodrow Bussey, who finally fled to Arizona "for the duration"; named in 75 damage claims totaling $10,067; the recipient of a death threat against national FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby; deluged with more than 4,300 phone calls. Added to these was a peculiar complaint from the owner of a general store in nearby Seward, Okla. Lately, it seems...