Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed been conducting intensive aerial reconnaissance over South China, North Viet Nam and the Laotian panhandle-where two U.S. jets were downed last week by Communist fire (see THE WORLD). All these neighborhoods would be staging areas for troop concentrations if the Viet Nam war were to escalate...
Through Waltzing Dan's room troop: his termagant sister (Pert Kelton), a scold who would rather be righteous than right; a mournful Jewish crony, much dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing...
...Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, by Lorraine Hansberry, has too many minds of its own. It is overloaded, overwritten and overwrought. It is about guilt and guilt collectors, venting their oral-compulsive laments in a Greenwich Village setting. Through the play troop the Quixotes who venture into political quicksands, the soiled hipsters of success and the purist false priests of failure, self-deceiving bohemians, homosexuals, husbands, wives, artists and whores. Everything overlaps and the play has diversity without direction. It endlessly circles its own conversation...
Names & Addresses. Sokolov and his accomplice, known variously as "Joy Ann Garber" and "Joy Ann Baltch," were nabbed by FBI agents in Washington in July 1963, charged with passing on to Moscow information about U.S. missile bases, troop movements and harbor defenses. In the $90-a-month Washington apartment where Sokolov and the woman lived, agents found the tools of the trade - short-wave radio equipment, cameras, film and electronic listening devices. Sokolov and Joy Ann faced a possible death penalty...
Mornings, they might take off an hour and find a quiet beach, but they are back in the thick of it before the cathedrals close and bistros beckon them on to a glass of Campari, retsina, or vin ordinaire. At some point, of course, they find time to troop into the local American Express, where on a good day, a persevering type can manage to meet a friend, down a Coke, pick up his mail and a girl as well...