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  XI. Letting in the Light. Riis, Jacob A. 1902. The Battle with the Slum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The first of the two playgrounds was to have been in Rivington Street, adjoining the new public bath, where the boys, for want of something better to do, were fighting daily battles with stones, to the great damage of windows and the worse aggravation of the householders.
Distinguished doctors said at the tuberculosis congress this spring that it is to blame with its dust for sowing the seeds of that fatal disease in the half-developed bodies.
Seven boys and girls rode with looks of deep concern—it is their way—upon each end of the seesaw, and two squeezed into each of the forty swings that had room for one, while a hundred counted time and saw that none had too much.
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 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco - "Two for the Seesaw - 5/26/02
Two For the Seesaw ran for 750 performances based on the star power of Mr.
Two apartments are set on the large stage; the left side is Jerry's run down cold water flat and the right side is Gittel's nicer apartment.
Two for the Seesaw runs through June 7 and is the last production of the 2001-02 season.
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 Thinking Small
They are based on a simple principle: by applying a small voltage across a sandwich of two semiconductor materials, negative electric charges (the electrons) and positive ones (known as "holes" or electron vacancies) are injected into the center of the sandwich, called the active region, where they "annihilate," giving off photons.
Being able to connect two or more quantum dots makes it theoretically possible to build circuits, and that could in turn open up a whole new area of research in electronic and magnetic devices, such as computers.
Two identical electrons cannot occupy the same space, just as two marbles cannot share the lowest point in a bowl.
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 The New York Times > Movies > Anne Bancroft, Stage and Film Star in Voracious and Vulnerable Roles, Dies at 73
Arthur Penn, who directed her award-winning Broadway performances in "Two for the Seesaw" and "The Miracle Worker," both by William Gibson, put it this way: "More happens in her face in 10 seconds than happens in most women's faces in 10 years." Broadway lights were scheduled to be dimmed tonight in her honor.
Bancroft's acting life were, unquestionably, the two Gibson plays and "The Graduate." She had already accumulated a long list of credits in TV dramas when she moved to Hollywood in the early 1950's to join the crowd of young hopefuls jostling for jobs in second- or third-rate films.
Two years later she found work in television where, as Anne Marno, she appeared in scores of dramatic shows.
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 Two for the Seesaw | "Feels" Like 'The Hustler', But Without The Billiards
Two For The Seesaw is a definite winner in my book.
However, the drama onstage is lost onscreen; it flounders, and leaves the audience with a bad taste in their mouth.
The theatrical "trick" of a two character play is that it brings the audience close to the characters in a way that many larger plays cannot and most films do.
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 Seesaw Center finds new home in Castle Shannon after two-year hiatus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The center's board spent two years trying to find another home where they could leave their indoor playground assembled for seven months without having to tear it down every night, especially because two of the safety carpets each weigh 150 pounds.
During the two years Seesaw was closed, Pettigrew made do with more scheduled play dates for her children, but that can be time consuming.
Parents do have to pick up toys their children use at Seesaw when they're done, but that's easy and the place is clean, she said.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05251/567376.stm   (731 words)

  
 Anne Bancroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From July 1, 1953 to February 13, 1957 she was married to Martin May, but the marriage produced no children.
In 1958 she appeared opposite Henry Fonda in the Broadway production of Two for the Seesaw, for which she won a Tony Award, and another in 1960 for The Miracle Worker.
Bancroft was survived by her mother and two sisters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_Bancroft   (629 words)

  
 ScienceWeek
Two proposals for the decline in pan evaporation have been advanced: the first invokes changes in the humidity regime over the pans, whereas the second invokes reductions in solar irradiance resulting from more clouds and/or aerosols (5) and is generally consistent with the independent suggestion that increased pollution would weaken the hydrological cycle.
The authors find that sea surface temperatures increased by 3.5–4.0 degrees C during the last two glacial—interglacial transitions, synchronous with the global increase in atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic warming, but the temperature increase occurred 2,000–3,000 years before the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets melted.
A strong and consistent signature of ENSO is apparent in the last two decades (1980-2001), while it is weaker and eventually uncorrelated during the first parts of the last century (1893-1920 and 1920-1940, respectively).
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 Weekend Edition
Two for the Seesaw was turned down by 14 producers before it finally made it to Broadway in 1958 where it was a huge success.
SCOTT: Two for the Seesaw tells the story of a brief love affair between two misfits; an out-of-work lawyer and an unemployed dancer.
He said that the experience of getting Two for the Seesaw to Broadway taught him that once a playwright gives a script to actors and directors, it's no longer his.
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 Citebase - Seesaw model and its Lorentz group formulation
For two flavors, the seesaw matrix can be identified with a two dimensional representation of the Lorentz group.
In the seesaw model with hierarchical Dirac masses, the neutrino mixing angle exhibits the behavior of a narrow resonance.
Two sets of conditions for such an enhancement are found.
citebase.eprints.org /cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:hep-ph/0003066   (1136 words)

  
 Aisle Say (San Francisco): TWO FOR THE SEESAW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
That's essentially what happens in William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," which won Anne Bancroft a Tony and launched her career in 1958.
Set in two New York City apartments in 1956 and 1957, the action focuses on two lonely people.
Even though "Two for the Seesaw" is dated in some of its details, its underlying themes still resonate, and Resnick's performance is a delight.
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 Sacramento Theatre Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Two for the Seesaw is the time tested, bitter sweet romantic comedy that speaks to all those who strive to find, understand, and survive love.
Insightfully written by the famed playwright of The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw is about two New Yorkers lost in a figurative playground of relationships.
Two for the Seesaw not only has an innovative story but also set design.
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 Mike Paulle Poker Blog
Matt made a good play by going all-in for 5,500 with K Q offsuit as two overcards to a garbage board of 8 5 2 with two hearts.
Two hands later, the early Executioner sang farewell.
Because it was Limit Hold’em these two were stuck on the seesaw and couldn’t get off.
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 'Seesaw's' timeless back-and-forth / 1958 Broadway hit retains relevance
The teeter-totter course of their relationship is the plot of William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," the 1958 Broadway hit that jump-started Gibson's and Anne Bancroft's (playing opposite Henry Fonda) careers (a year before the playwright and actress scored even bigger with "The Miracle Worker").
"Seesaw" is not written for short attention spans, nor does it fully justify its length.
Her vulnerability is as much the touchstone of the play as her wisdom impels its resolution.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/23/DD71518.DTL&type=performance   (739 words)

  
 Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks Celebrities Compatibility Report - Goto Horoscope
Two years later she signed a contract with Fox and launched a six-year career in second-string Westerns and crime dramas that began with Don't Bother to Knock in 1952.
She proved her mettle as a serious dramatic actress by winning a Tony for Two for the Seesaw in 1958.
Two years later, she won her second Tony and a New York Drama Critics Award for her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.
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 Arts&culture - January 29, 2004
Two for the Seesaw is an old chestnut: a duet between mismatched lovers played out in grungy New York flats (his and hers) and on the phone.
Self-doubting Jerry is a semi-divorced lawyer from distant, rural Nebraska who still carries a torch for his ex.
So, let’s mention that Miller, during two seasons at the Sacramento Theatre Company, has given us delightful performances again and again (Arms and the Man and Fully Committed among them); and Gularte, who was a promising community player seven years ago, has matured into a versatile, confident, full-time professional.
www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2004-01-29/theater.asp   (549 words)

  
 Two for the Seesaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two for the Seesaw is a 1962 drama film, directed by Robert Wise.
Two for the Seesaw at the Internet Movie Database
This page was last modified 23:38, 28 April 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Two_for_the_Seesaw   (57 words)

  
 VHS : Two for the Seesaw | Online shopping | Two for the Seesaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine star in "Two For The Seesaw", which is a movie that I enjoyed very much.
Mitchum was a very busy actor in the early 1960s, with "Seesaw" already representing his 8th film during the still-very-young decade of the '60s.
The theatrical "trick" of a two character play is that it brings the audience close to the characters...
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 Anne Bancroft
For years she continued working in television and B movies before taking a turn on the stage, and at that time coming into her own.
Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker both earned the versatile actress Tony awards.
They were both adapted for film, and while her stage role in Two for the Seesaw went with Shirley MacLaine, Bancroft held on to her role as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker and won an Oscar in that role.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/AnneBancroft/AnneBancroft.html   (381 words)

  
 tim1965: Anne Bancroft died today of cancer. She
Frustrated with the less than stellar films she was offered and her supporting roles, Bancroft returned to the stage in 1957 (after making 15 films in six years).
She won a Tony award in 1958 for Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) in "Two for the Seesaw." The two-character play, which co-starred the legendary Henry Fonda, got off to a rocky start.
Arthur Penn, who directed her on stage in "Two for the Seesaw" and "The Miracle Worker" (the latter in the film as well), said, "More happens in her face in 10 seconds than happens in most women's faces in 10 years."
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 Current Biography 1960 Ed.
A newcomer to Broadway, actress Anne Bancroft, of Italian-American background, has scored two hits in succession--first as a Jewish girl in Two for the Seesaw in 1958 and as an American educator in The Miracle Worker in 1959.
After reading the script for Two for the Seesaw she yearned for the part of Gittel Mosca, a ballet dancer who has exchanged the Bronx for Bohemia.
In order to know what it was like to be blind, she attached adhesive strips to her eyelids and wore dark glasses for two days.
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 Film Music on the Web CD Reviews Feb 1999: REEL LOVE - Great Romantic Movie Themes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Music from: Goodbye Again; The Misfits; Two for the Seesaw; Irma La Douce; Live for Life; Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell; Gaily, Gaily; The Happy Ending; Love is a Funny Thing; Last Tango in Paris.
As the (uncredited) perceptive and intelligent CD notes to this album observes, after the broad, lush romantic themes of the 1940s and '50s, written by the greats like Korngold and Steiner, music for the screen romances of the 1960s changed to accommodate the jazz, pop and rock fashions of those days.
The Main Title theme Two for the Seesaw (1962) that starred Shirley Maclaine and Robert Mitchum, Previn, has a smoochy, moody duet between horn and trumpet that gives way to strings with trumpet intoning over a softly brushed percussion rhythm.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Two for the Seesaw : Review
On stage, "two-handers" -- plays featuring only two actors -- can be enormously entertaining and compelling, allowing performers the chance to dig under the skin of their characters and treat the audience to an intimate experience that has a special
Two for the Seesaw suffers from all of these problems, although it is ultimately redeemed by the basic warmth and appeal of its story and by Shirley MacLaine's sweet, vulnerable performance.
Robert Mitchum doesn't come off as well, partially because the role doesn't call on the qualities that suit him best and partially because the role is not as well written as MacLaine's.
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 Variety.com - Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
By Anne Bancroft, known for her perf as the seductress of her daughter's boyfriend in "The Graduate," as well as her Oscar-winning role in "The Miracle Worker," died Monday of uterine cancer in New York.
The first came for "Two for the Seesaw," the play that made her a star.
In 1957, she was recommended to director Fred Coe to play Gittel in "Two for the Seesaw" opposite Henry Fonda.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Two on the Seesaw -- Apr. 05, 1963   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Ever since World War II—even through ten years of Soviet occupation—the Austrian government has been run jointly by the conservative People's Party and the Socialist Party, like two polite, equally weighted cousins on an inert seesaw.
So scrupulously balanced is the coalition and the Proporz system of dividing up the jobs that, according to Viennese table talk, if there is one People's Party Putz-frau (charwoman) in a government building, there must be a Socialist Putzfrau too.
After last November's elections, balance became stalemate; the two big parties have been haggling...
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 DVD Times - Two for the Seesaw
In the case of Two for the Seesaw, the key participant is playwright William Gibson.
Yet the rhythms are awkward rather than snappy, and ultimately Two for the Seesaw plays more like a bad sitcom than any kind of hidden cinematic gem.
Surprisingly, as this is another of MGM’s bare bones back catalogue releases, Two for the Seesaw arrives on disc looking quite spectacular.
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 World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Tw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
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Shirley MacLaine is Gittel, an eccentric dancer from the Bronx, and Robert Mitchum is Jerry, a midwestern lawyer whose marriage is on the rocks, in TWO FOR THE SEESAW.
The two hit it off, if only physically at first, and begin an affair.
There are several factors conspiring against their relationship besides their differences in backgrounds--for one, Jerry is still depressed about his ex-wife and the loss of his former life.
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 Essay Galaxy - Biography: William Gibson (1914- )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Born in New York City on November 13, 1914, William Gibson studied at the College of the City of New York.
His work was produced only by regional theatres until Two For the Seesaw opened on Broadway in 1958.
The highly successful play was later made into a film and a musical called simply Seesaw (1973).
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 Two for the Seesaw (1962)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Mitchum's wonderfully-modulated performance as a middle-aged lawyer on the rebound, and MacLaine's as the effervescent young dancer he becomes involved with, mesh very appealingly.
The Broadway-caliber dialogue is more sophisticated, and the emotional level more intimate, than the films the two were typically making at the time.
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Two for the Seesaw (1962)
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