Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Some of the surefire laughs in The Best Man, an election-year play about good buys and bad guys in presidential politics, went over bigger than usual one night last week at Manhattan's Morosco Thea ter. Like the moment in the first act when Trumanesque "ex-President Hock-stader" assured a prospective presidential nominee: "And for another thing, you're a millionaire. People trust you rich boys. They figure you've got so much money of your own you won't go stealin' theirs." Or when fat "Senator Carlin" cracked...
...that have flared up in eating places all over the South. But the U.S. Justice Department, entering the case as a friend of the court, filed a brief which contended that Boynton's conviction also violated the statu tory (as opposed to constitutional) provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, which forbids interstate busline operators from exercising any kind of "unjust discrimination" or "unreasonable prejudice", against any individual...
...freshmen got in on the record smashing act in beating B.U., 30 to 23. Eddie Meehan led the team with a time in the 1000 that set a freshman record and even surpassed the present varsity mark for the cage...
...Connecticut romp, nearly everybody got into the scoring act. Donovan paced the Eagles with 28, followed by Hooley with 25, Ward with 18, Foley with 10, and Quinn with nine. In contract, no Crimson performer has yet reached the 20-point mark this season...
...gradual revelation of Vogler's disgust with the world (visually depicted by the carefully-directed progression from impenetrability to utter weariness in his facial expression) occurs while a committee of cynical officials reviews the troupe's act to see whether it is suitable for the towns-folk. The enertainers--a youthful coachman, the cunning and comical manager, Tubal, Vogler's wife disguised as a man, and an old hag who claims to be a witch 200 years old--then go off on their own to adventures both comic and serious, romantic and metaphysical...