Word: toring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...semester. A good many productions planned for March and early April are auditioning this week. Tonight is the final try-out session for the Loeb Mainstage's production of Candide, based on the Hal Prince musical that was a smash in New York several seasons ago. Director Prince literally tore up the theater, ripping up seats and laying down ramps and platforms. The effect was that of a three-ring circus, with the actors singing, dancing and sometimes shoving their way among the spectators. Reviewers praised the show for maintaining the satiric spirit of Voltaire's 18th-century masterpiece, which...
...whisked Lady Annabel Birley off for a private wedding ceremony-in Paris of all places. When the couple left Goldsmith's Paris office, Daily Express Photographer Bill Lovelace snapped some pictures. Sir Jimmy ran at him "like a mad bull," grabbed his camera, then dragged Lovelace inside and tore ? out the film. Gossip columnists, the press lord groused later, "are diseases like the flu, and everyone is subject to them." Well, almost everyone...
...Shah to put together a coalition government that would include members of the opposition National Front, an alignment of moderate political groups as well as the two leading Muslim religious leaders, the Ayatullahs Khomeini and Sharietmadari (see box). On Saturday night, students at the University of Tehran tore down a statue of the Shah that stood at the entrance to their campus. Iranian soldiers, who had been under orders to use restraint since the "Black Friday" demonstrations on Sept. 8 that left hundreds dead, suddenly turned tough and fired into the crowd, killing eight and wounding...
...Quaker Wishbone (nearly 400 yards on the day) tore up the Astroturf the way Secretariat tears up dirt, and before you could say Frank Rizzo, Penn had a two-touchdown lead after its first two possessions...
...could charm a barroom full of journalists or a playground full of children. But when Schoenstein Sr. sensed injustice, he could become a horse of a different choler. Once, Ralph recalls, he and a buddy were given a summons for playing ball in Riverside Park. His father happened along, tore the ticket into bits, and growled at the cop: "For Crissake, why don't you go after [Gangster Lucky] Luciano and leave a bunch of kids alone!" The policeman crept away...