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...been brought out: it is as if two hundred years of hostile homosexual humor have been siphoned into this one little musical, and God is it depressing. It is sad that Harvard is not the kind of place that will let its homosexual community come out of the closet, and, until it does, I guess the centuries of repression will continue to surface in such misogynic entertainment's as Rhinestones. Why the presumably well-meaning group of people associated with this show would want to play at being repressed homosexuals for the sole purpose of furthering a bankrupt tradition beats...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Pudding Rhinestones in the Rough from now until Bermuda | 3/5/1971 | See Source »

Playwright Arthur Kopit-who is best known for his hit, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad-is now busy working on a new screenplay. Its Kopital title, which is presumably half the creative battle: Good Morning, Berenger! How's Everything Today? Not Bad? That's Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 22, 1971 | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...about my bowling shoes. My nice white Hyde's lying in my closet day after day because I never go bowling...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 1/21/1971 | See Source »

...Investigation are taking the true measure of his success. Powell, who in his lifetime of public service never earned more than $30,000 a year, left an estate worth more than $2 million-$800,000 of it in bills packed into shoe boxes, briefcases and strongboxes in the closet of his hotel suite in Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Paul Powell's Nest Egg | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Bemused Beneficiary. John S. Rendleman, chancellor of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and executor of the estate of the twice-widowed, childless Powell, discovered the money in the Springfield hotel room the day after funeral services had been held in the capitol rotunda. "The closet was full of money," Rendleman said. It took three bank tellers more than four hours to count the money. Rendleman did not make the find public until nearly three months later, while he searched neighboring banks for additional funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Paul Powell's Nest Egg | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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