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...Open Windows, and On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next. Last week in London, preparing for its presentation next fall in Manhattan, Kopit's first-professional production reached the stage: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Oh Tennessee, Poor Tennessee Kopit's Hung You in the Closet And Won't You Be Mad | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...finally decides the direction in which his future greatness lies. Her own occupation is measuring yachts, and she takes a lover who has a particularly impressive craft, only to spurn him with the philosophy that "life, Mr. Rose-above, is a husband hanging from a hook in the closet." The husband's corpse, in the end, falls out of the closet and across the bed where young Jonathan Rosepettle is strangling a seductive baby sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Oh Tennessee, Poor Tennessee Kopit's Hung You in the Closet And Won't You Be Mad | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...while the wet clothes are drying, then attaches the gadget to the emptied dryer and puts her head under it. She emerges dripped and dried, but possibly wondering about the day when she herself might be folded neatly by her husband, and placed with great care in the linen closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Don't Drip: Dry | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Flip the Switch. In this indoor Shangri-La, parents are building themselves a home within a home, including stereo and TV sets, dressing room, extra closet space, fireplace, bar, refrigerator, and perhaps even a small kitchen. One couple does much of its entertaining in the master bedroom, which is decorated like a living room (the beds are made up like studio couches), has a separate entrance. Parental authority is maintained through a master control panel that can turn out lights all over the house and through an intercom system over which parents can give orders-and avoid being answered back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Fortresses with Bath | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...cruel world. A man slaps his friend on the back with one hand, steals his wallet with the other. Four young punks stone a kitten to death and, when the wardrobe men protest, beat them up and break their mirror. When the closet-horses lie down to rest, a watchman drives them away with a stick. Heads bowed, they carry their burden back to the beach and quietly disappear into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: ... And Selected Shorts | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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