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...next trip was on the blue line. I chose to go all the way to Wonderland, where I could supposedly change without charge. But when I got out there, I was greeted by the condemned roller coaster of Revere Beach and some equally decrepit turnstiles, which demanded another of my precious quarters. But at least on my ride out there, I had ridden in these cars which had heat pouring up through the slats in the wooden seats-really great on this cold morning...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...reality of America's treatment of the Indian-will debate with Evergreen and Village Voice critic John Lahr. Lahr's recent biography, Notes On A Cowardly Lion, has made a camp hero of his father, Bert Lahr, and helped to cause the enormously-popular revival of Alice In Wonderland, to the delight of Bert Lahr fans everywhere. Kopit wrote and produced Oh Dad Poor Dad while still at Harvard, for which he won the Outer Circle award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drama | 4/10/1970 | See Source »

...Jewish seat" on the court since Woodrow Wilson appointed Louis Brandeis in 1916. Under the Hruska doctrine, there might henceforth be a place reserved for mediocrities. On reflection, even Hmska, Carswell's chief sponsor in the Senate, realized that his reasoning was more at home in Alice in Wonderland than in the U.S. Senate. He let critics have the floor for most of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: A Seat for Mediocrity? | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

Lesotho is in many ways an undistinguished country. The Switzerland of Southern Africa, travel writers have termed her, but the phrase is much too glib. This is no Alpine wonderland; the surface beauty of the gnarled Maluti mountains masks a state of poverty that is among the most abject on earth...

Author: By John Ryan, | Title: The fuse is set on another African revolt | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

...show subdivides into 13 major acts featuring Mickey Mouse as master of ceremonies ("He's so cool and clean-cut," says Producer-Director Bob Jani). Also on hand are Pluto, the Three Little Pigs, Donald Duck, Dumbo and his circus, Cinderella, the Jungle Book characters, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Each act and character is introduced on the giant overhead movie screen with clips from the appropriate Disney movie. Around the edges of the portable stage is a 6-ft.-wide Fiberglas border containing sound-sensitive lights, which respond to the beat of the music, plus ten strobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Psychedelic Disney | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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