Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of its decade-long smallpox-eradication program. Even while they were accepting the prestigious $10,000 award in Manhattan last week, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and the Cleveland-born chief of the eradication program, Dr. Donald A. Henderson, were in touch with aides in the East African nation of Somalia, where the last two known cases of smallpox were discovered Oct. 29 and Nov. 4. If no further cases are reported, smallpox could become the first disease ever to be totally eradicated...
...film develops the tale of Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), the leading actor in the show Prince "writes." Brown is under investigation by an ominous character named Hennesey who works in an agency called Freedom Information. (The blatantly fascist-trappings of Hennesey's character and office are an effective touch.) The eventual blacklisting of Brown, because he once marched in a May Day parade, which Hennesey recommends to the networks, provides the catalyst for the remaining events of the film...
...contract that allows her to leave the set to rush home in time to make supper for her husband. She has a sense of humor (asked once when she first realized she was beautiful, she replied, "Just after the makeup man got here; before that it was touch and go") and a developing shrewdness about her own power. Her contract specifies that she may keep any wardrobe items that strike her fancy, and because she does, her co-stars have the same privilege, since they are treated with scrupulous equality...
Camp Edgewater is of course on a lake and in it Sam sees the silvery fish he wants to touch. He's told he can't have them. Otis, who had sailed on the lake as a young man with his wife, looks at it on the Fourth of July to see the sunlight reflected and tells his counselors, "There's your fireworks. Right there...
Hampered by physical limitations, the staging is not as good as it could have been. Although director Douglas Hughes obviously had a tender touch on the play and brought out dimensions which a less perceptive director would not have, the characterizations still were lumpy...