Word: gras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nudist Campers evokes the critical judgment rendered by Martin Esslin, author of The Theater of the Absurd, that "the modern theater aspires to the condition of the brothel, but it cannot deliver the goods." At Jim Haynes' Arts Laboratory, every night is an esthetic Mardi Gras, and one obsessive concern of the "artists" is to make expressive art objects of themselves. They are human happenings, and as such may spell the death of art rather than its birth. For them, durability seems like death. Their credo is not "Life is short. Art is long" but "Life is short...
...plays (including My Fair Lady, Camelot); of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Gruff, unfailingly honest and highly literate, Maney assailed the theater for its "notorious affair with mediocrity," and engaged in monumental bouts with such employers as Orson Welles and Billy Rose. "Producing," he once said, "is the Mardi Gras of the professions- anyone with a mask and enthusiasm can bounce into it." Yet in his tart, tough way, he was fond of the theater. As he once put it: "Pressagentry can be a gay life for one with detachment, and with an understanding of why the theater's children...
...BEAT OF THE BRASS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass take a musical trip around the U.S. stopping in such places as New Orleans during Mardi Gras, the children's zoo in Los Angeles, and New York's Ellis Island...
...shipping magnates and the new movie rich wander across its baroque lobbies and take in the view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower or mingle with the chic luncheon crowd in the garden restaurant, nibbling lobster souffle or "Tournedos Plaza Athénée" smothered in foie gras. The hotel's 50 suites and 200 rooms, priced from $15 to $100 a night, are looked after by 450 employees, its dining room served by 45 cooks...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Musicians Al Hirt and Pete Fountain, Singer Lana Cantrell and Dancer Peter Gennaro in New Orleans for "Mardi Gras...