Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Gevanthor, a New York City executive, proposed a new White House post: Presidential Aide for Liaison, or PAL. Fifty of these PALS would be appointed to tour each of the states in trailers and serve as a "conduit to the White House...
...Carter or Califano decides to put an end to the rumors, no one can be quite sure that Champion is going to Washington. But for now, it looks as if President Bok will have to start looking for a new financial vice president when he gets back from his tour of East Asia...
Emlyn Williams's one-man show, Dylan Thomas Growing Up, similarly impresses me as a collection of voices--all creations of Williams's own hypnotic baritone. In contrast to The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris's recent tour-de-force portrayal of Emily Dickinson, Williams has steered away from constructing a coherent dramatic whole, embracing a well-developed set of invisible characters, a climax and a denouement. Instead, he uses only a loose chronological organization, modeling his entertainment after Thomas's own prose, with its fluid structure and its lack of a clear beginning, middle...
...where he Zeroed in on friends and tugged at a lady's bouffant wig. Wife Kate finally got him settled down for a midnight supper and sighed: "I have only one more opening night left in me." Her mate was an ecumenical pain during the pre-Broadway road tour. Explained Kate: "He would walk up the aisles and people would say, 'God bless you.' He began to feel like the Pope...
...well as brilliant and too little known." But in art as in science, experiment leads to discovery and to higher forms of expression and invention. Poet Wallace Stevens once observed, "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature." OuLiPo is a tour de force of nature-and yet another proof that the gap between science and art can still be bridged...