Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercial movies, he complained: "I prostituted myself not to live but to avoid dying." Five decades later, one understanding producer, Francis Coppola, helped English Film Historian Kevin Brownlow present a reassembled copy of Napoleon, shown last January in New York City. The revival of the epic gave Gance the acclaim that had long eluded him. But the master film maker, though grateful, was still bitter, lamenting, "The bravos come too late...
...tung once said: "A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner," which is unarguable. On the whole, however, politicians have lost a lot more than they have gained by reaching for poetry. Warren G. Harding's Inaugural statement that he "would rejoice to acclaim the era of the Golden Rule and crown it with the autocracy of service" is still under review. William Howard Taft, when facing a challenge for renomination from Teddy Roosevelt, struck back, and told the New York Times: "I have been a man of straw long enough. Even...
...emergence of a Brazilian film industry with international acclaim is a welcome development. For too long, the Latin American film world has been dominated by American directors, and Latin American culture too heavily influenced by the values implicit in American films. Though it will take a long time to erase misunderstandings of the Third World, the emergence of films which show a reality alien to our own is a large step toward progress...
...could, if he wanted to, virtually disappear. Earlier this year, Norman Mailer had led a campaign to secure parole for Abbott, largely on the basis of his writing talent. His letters from prison, collected under the title In the Belly of the Beast, were released to fair critical acclaim. But the ex-convict seemed unable to handle his lionization or his freedom. Two months ago, Abbott got into an argument with a waiter in a New York City restaurant. The two men went outside, and moments later the young waiter was lying on the ground, stabbed to death. Abbott...
...used brilliantly that ambiguity, refusing to portray Ciello as either hero or villain. Americans have never been entirely comfortable with the informer, but informers have periodically (though often only temporarily) emerged as heroes. The name-namers of the McCarthy period offer the most striking example of evaporating national acclaim, while the Watergate tattlers have generally enhanced their reputations. Ciello falls somewhere in the middle...