Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face down the tragedy. The price of public life was a dangerous dependence on alcohol and medication. After leaving the White House, she bravely took the cure. A woman who neither wanted nor sought the world stage, she faltered before her audience, righted herself and won acclaim...
...literature. The bulk of Garcia Márquez's short fiction was written before his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in Spanish in 1967 and in English three years later. That outlandish, exuberant chronicle of a tragicomically doomed family won its author the worldwide acclaim he continues to receive. Collected Stories offers an earlier portrait of the artist as apprentice, struggling to put together the fragments of a fabulous world...
...might well love Cats, a smash musical hit on both sides of the Atlantic, which uses as its libretto his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1936). For while Eliot was horrified by the prospect of invasions of his privacy, he also longed for the popular acclaim that not even his most successful plays achieved. He was always at war with himself, and the disembodied voice of his best poetry emerged from the white center of this conflict. Ackroyd does a superb job of identifying and temporarily separating the diverse Eliots who struggled to make up the poet...
...judge by the evidence so far, the answer is yes. After an inevitable letdown during the two-year hiatus between Maazel and Dohnányi, when various guest conductors took over, the future looks bright. The new partnership is currently basking in acclaim, inspiring hopes of a return to the glory days of Szell. Ticket sales are up: Severance Hall, the orchestra's home, is 95% subscribed. The orchestra, possessing the richest, most European sound of any U.S. ensemble, is playing at the top of its formidable form again. No one is happier than Dohnanyi. Says he: "Being...
Television movies rarely win both high ratings and critical acclaim, but NBC's The Burning Bed managed to do so last week. Starring Farrah Fawcett, the gritty film was based on a 1977 case in which a battered Michigan housewife set her sleeping husband on fire but was acquitted of murder by a jury. During the program, some stations flashed telephone numbers of local shelters and hot lines for battered women. Thousands of viewers called in: abused wives seeking relief and, in some cases, battering husbands seeking counseling...