Word: wonderlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plaza Hotel's Persian Room signed her up for a three-week stint next winter. One more appearance on the Sullivan show is scheduled this season, and Broadway Producer David Black called Brooks and said he wanted her for his modern musical version of Alice in Wonderland next fall. "Obviously," says Brooks, "the Man Upstairs wants all this for our Rozzie...
...negotiations had produced proposals acceptable to three of the unions, the company and the government-a development that could end the strike quickly. In Parliament, Mrs. Castle said: "Some industries are getting near anarchy today." British Ford's negotiators confessed that they felt like characters in Alice in Wonderland. They could hardly overstate the absurdity of bargaining with scores of union leaders who do not have to consult their membership either before or after an agreement and who are often out of touch with the people they represent. Prime Minister Harold Wilson condemned the strike leaders for imperiling Britain...
...brought new hazards faster than old ones have been controlled. Manufacturers have long since stopped using mercury in the production of men's hats, thus eliminating the "hatter's shakes" disease that may well have accounted for the peculiar behavior of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Until the problem was brought under control recently, other garment workers faced a potential health danger from inhaling fumes from the formaldehyde contained in permanent-press fabrics. According to an official government compilation, U.S. workers are exposed to no fewer than 182 "hazardous agents," ranging from acetaldehyde (used in making...
...POOH PLAYERS are back, offering their blasphemous rendition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, each made the more blasphemous by this company's astonishing capacity for off-the-cuff stage gibberish. The few children in attendance continue to despite the Pooh Players and all they stand for, but the adults sit by in tolerant amusement. Lewis Carroll would make mincemeat of his grave...
...Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. The complete text and original illustrations in the only fully annotated edition. Notes are concurrent with the text on all the jokes, games, parodies, puzzles, etc., with which Carroll filled his Original Publication at $10.00. Now only...