Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever Unanimous. But Sukarno, who plays at government the way a child might play at Monopoly, chose to ignore such mundane matters...
Opening this week at a Michigan summer playhouse is a political satire about a conniving ward heeler, Ballots Up! The playwright: "Larry Sand," who based the work on a 1957 novel. Let George Do It, by "John Foster." As suspicions mounted about the play's authorship, investigation soon proved that Playwright Sand is Novelist Foster; both are, in fact, Massachusetts' two-term Democratic Governor (John) Foster Furcolo, 49. Long since unmasked as the author of the novel, Furcolo was slightly perturbed to stand revealed, even before the first night, as, the playwright. Said he: "I didn...
...intense competitive spirit. Where others go through the motions in batting practice, Maris digs in, swings as though the deciding game of the World Series is at stake. In a late inning of a recent game, with the Yankees far out in front, Maris broke up a double play by almost tearing the legs off Athletics Second Baseman Jerry Lumpe as he slid in. He has tumbled over the fence in Yankee Stadium while trying to get his glove on a home run. After a game, Maris, brooding over a Coke or a beer, is one of the last Yankees...
Danny's eleven consists of himself and ten other ruffians, all former members of a commando-like World War II unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. The old soldiers are played by such members of Sinatra's off-screen Clan as Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr., and a jollier lot has not tripped the screen since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Their idea of a veterans' meeting is not to salute the flag and then sit down to play pinochle; they decide, with the help of an imaginative racketeer (Akim Tamiroff...
Although some San Franciscans are so set in their ways that they still play dominoes, San Francisco claims to have nurtured more contemporary trends than any other U.S. city. The Bach-toned jazz of Dave Brubeck first took flight there about a decade ago. The mordant political satire of Comedian Mort Sahl found its first audience 6½ years ago at San Francisco's hungry i. And the beats were nowhere until they settled down in San Francisco pads...