Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). The hostess tries her wholesome hand with Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables. Color.
Advise and Consent. Although too obviously melodramatic and politically shallow, the adaptation of the bestselling. novel about a Cabinet nominee's battle for Senate confirmation is both brisk and suspenseful.
Period of Adjustment. Trading claws for Santa Claus, Broadway's master of violence, Tennessee Williams, has written a comedy-lecture on how to stay married, which is superficial, dexterous and lively.
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, these superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams.
A Taste of Honey. An episodic but unblinkingly truthful first play about a tramp of a mother and her illegitimate daughter, by a talented young Englishwoman who has the knack of using light to make soot more visible.