Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway, Tom Courtenay continued in Otherwise Engaged by flashlight, with an actor shouting "Erring!" when a phone was supposed to ring and humming the overture to Wagner's Parsifal in place of a recording. About a quarter of the 2,000 people who were watching the stage show Salute to New York City stayed on at Radio City Music Hall after the lights went out, snacking on pretzels and Italian ices bought from street vendors who crowded into the foyer. At Shea Stadium, play stopped in the sixth inning, with the Chicago Cubs leading the New York Mets...
Memorizing lines is sheer agony, but TV Personality Dick Cavett is determined to see his name in lights on Broadway. The onetime Yale drama major (class of 1958) belatedly makes his debut this week as Tom Courtenay's replacement in the hit show Otherwise Engaged. "I can't see why if I don't screw up I shouldn't be acceptable," Cavett predicts about his role as a snobbish British publisher beset by domestic crises. But he does have one worry: "I have a bad dream in which I go blank during a speech...
When Herman Keiser won the Masters he was described as looking like a "Missouri mortician," but the 27 year-old Watson, who is a native of Kansas City, is usually compared to his home state's favorite son, Tom Sawyer. Presently the leading money winner in professional golf, Watson's victory on Saturday has undoubtedly established him as one of the game's great champions...
Most of Turnberry's distinctive terrain was completely eradicated when the course was levelled and concrete airstrips laid down during World War II. The course was restored only as a result of the genius of the late Scotch golf course architect Mackenzie Ross and his associate Tom Simpson. Their partnership began when Ross, who had just won a tournament at which Simpson officiated, went over to admire the latter's Rolls Royce. Ross told Simpson that he could improve the car's appearance by moving the front numberplate below the cross bar. Simpson was so impressed by Ross's attention...
...then as she grabs back on, he flies off. They notice the audience, and, startled, drop to all fours. A searchlight, and a James Bond theme song, come on; the two run, frightened. Then, left to the clothesline again, they show off for one another, primping like a tom and pussycat. There's only a pink-lit romantic interlude, then gunshots, and both fall to the ground, just as they had when teasing one another. They stagger back to the clothesline to end. The piece is a mixture of pop and satire that 1966, the year "Headquarters" was composed, would...