Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soledad, Cuba, is located the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory, founded by a University gift in 1901. Fear arose recently that the Castro regime had seized the 200-acre plot, which is devoted to tropical agriculture, ecomonic botany, and related biological sciences...
Electric Shocks. There is a good deal of Jean Kerr in Mary, Mary, a play that one critic described as "five characters releasing an author." The characters inhabit an unashamedly prefabricated plot (about a divorced couple who, of course, get together again), but it is full of humor and insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like...
several Broadway marriage brokers-Librettists Fred Saidy and Henry Myers, Lyricist E. Y. Harburg-trying to unite Aristophanes and Offenbach. Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony. For plot they have gone to Lysistrata, with its inspired, antiwar idea of having wives lock their bedroom doors to make their husbands lay down their arms. But in production terms that idea has recurrently inspired more bad taste and ponderous bawdry than it was ever worth, and if The Happiest Girl is no more than middling lewd...
...dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared scarved, barelegged and besandaled at Good Friday services. For Sunday she had assembled her standard pillbox hat-in blue straw-and matching two-piece, silk-shantung dress. For breathless garment-industry tycoons tilting at windfalls, Jackie...
Mary, Mary. A thoroughly engaging comedy by Jean Kerr, author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, who offers an obvious marriage-divorce plot, but has decorated it with splendid...