Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Billie Holiday was no butterfly to be broken on such a greasy wheel. As this triumphant 10-CD collection demonstrates, she still had greatness in her. She was leading a reckless life when she laid down her great Columbia sides in the 1930s and early '40s, and by the time she got to Verve, the price she was paying for her excesses was becoming more damaging. You can hear the bills coming due. In a "Jazz at the Philharmonic" session from 1945, Holiday's debut at Carnegie Hall, she follows a sexy, freewheeling Body and Soul with a heart-riving...
...might be interested in working on an exhibition about the society. "They were planning to have this exhibition, which was going to be small...enough to be manageable for me," Dreifus explains. "And also the subject matter of it--an undergraduate organization that exhibited modern art in the early 1930s--[he felt] it would be appropriate for an undergraduate to be working...
...early 1930s, when communism still shone with the promise of a bright future, Margaret Bourke-White went to the Soviet Union to capture the seismic changes of a society bent on forging itself anew. The country was a mystery then, and her photographs and journal entries, excerpted here, laid bare the dedication and raw muscle fueling a blast furnace of a nation as it struggled out of feudalism. Sixty years later, TIME invited Anthony Suau to retrace Bourke-White's journey. If her pictures were the positive, his are the negative. The Russia that emerges from Suau's frames...
...Joseph Stalin in HBO's new film about the Soviet dictator. Certainly his deeds are just as monstrous, and even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance, the century's least charismatic evildoer remains a stubbornly opaque figure...
History cautions against too quickly proclaiming a Golden Age for native opera. The 1930s witnessed a false dawn when Howard Hanson's Merry Mount and Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman, among other worthy pieces, took the stage at the Met only to disappear soon after. A few decades later, composers such as Douglas Moore (Baby Doe), Robert Ward (The Crucible) and Samuel Barber (Vanessa) made another attempt to establish American opera, but their works faded as well...