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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain number of people walk out on every show we do. That will always happen, and that's the life we live. But more of them will stay, to have had a pretty good time. Not as good a time as they would have at Hello, Dolly, but a pretty good time. And as you keep infusing that into the taste of people you are doing what we used to talk about, which is educating your public. Now that's an enormous subject, but it was a hell of a lot more difficult to do three years ago than...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: Hal Prince: All the World's a Musical | 12/2/1975 | See Source »

...aggressive than it did 15 years ago. It still transmits an enormous sense of energy; what counts is the vigor of the form, the expansive thrust of its members driving into space. But this syntax of angles, which makes his best sculptures change so compellingly and unpredictably when one walks around them, had to wait. It would be five years before Di Suvero could work regularly on this scale again. In March 1960 he was nearly killed in an elevator accident. His back and left leg were broken, and the doctors said that he would never walk, let alone work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Energy as Delight | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...hospital last spring after a long convalescence from his stroke. An unusual nerve pain in the paralyzed areas on his left side had taken a severe toll. The Walter Reed doctors gave Douglas a blunt prognosis: You are not going to improve; you will always be paralyzed, unable to walk, in nearly constant pain; you will gradually deteriorate until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Douglas Finally Leaves the Bench | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Down the parched readjust outside their house walks a family, a father and mother and perhaps six children. They walk into shadow, and we seem to see doz ens, then hundreds of people, until they fill the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famine | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Exhibitions of Harvard-Yale chauvinism often walk the razor's edge between good-natured boasts of superiority and spiteful self-gratification. Yalies are wont to espouse the stereotype of the condescending Harvard pseudo-intellectual, as in the following excerpt from a Yale student's report of the first Harvard-Yale game: "If we were to paint the typical Harvard student, we should draw him as a gentlemanly fellow with a thin veneering of respectibility, and an amazing amount of superficial knowledge, who, angry at a man would think, 'he's a low fellah, you know,' ... and who, immediately after death...

Author: By Robert L. Ullman, | Title: Clotheslines and Leather | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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