Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nick Clark as Ma Marion and Jack Olive as Junior are in beautiful control of their parts and complement Patterson's sometimes undirected energy. Clark wields a strong umbrella, an even stronger arched eyebrow, struts and talks his castrating role for all its raucous humor. Olive, who doesn't have much of a singing voice, is almost obscenely comfortable on a stage, engaging and convincing as he puts across the show's only ballad. Randy Parry (Belle Bottom) develops the indifferent drunken daughter's part well, but is overshadowed by the sensational obscene clowning of Ed Strong and Randy Guffey...
...Anatomy of Britain, has inspected this platonic marriage in an other volume, The New Europeans. Unless radical changes of attitude take place, Sampson believes, European integration has reached its high-water mark. Says he: "Western Europe, shorn of overseas commitments and empires and protected by the American umbrella [of ICBMs] is a continent without a cause. In this situation, its components are very likely to reassert themselves...
...serious. Even minor infractions provoke them. Goffman has described the restrictions imposed on suitable behavior in the rain. A man in a trench-coat will naturally pass muster. So will one who is coatless, as long as he suggests by his deportment-hunched shoulders, an impromptu newspaper umbrella-that he is alive to his predicament. So will arm-locked young lovers, sublimely indifferent to their drenching. But someone who walks along unprotected and apparently unaware of the downpour is likely to evoke a startled and uneasy response...
...independent Dubcek, and Premier Oldfich Cernik who quickly became adept at compromising with Moscow. There were rumors that Dubcek may soon be given a purely honorific job. That could happen after the federal-socialist state comes into being on Jan. 1, with separate Czech and Slovak governments under an umbrella government in Prague. At that time, the Russians may seek to impose several important personnel changes...
MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. A work billed as one play by three authors, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Leonard Melfi, is merely an umbrella covering three disparate statements. The play, like fanners, is best in the "morning...