Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. George F. Getty II, 43, J. Paul's eldest son, executive vice president and crown prince of the Getty Oil empire; by Gloria Gordon Getty, 37; on grounds that he was "aloof, cold, indifferent and insulting"; after 16 years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles. Gloria gets their Los Angeles estate plus $66,000 yearly alimony and child support...
Despite the fact that Liberian politics are not exactly democratic-Tub-man's True Whig Party has no effective opposition-"Uncle Shad" has never kept himself aloof from his people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor matters in his government, including the marital disputes of his staff. He finds time to dance a spry quadrille at soirees in the palace and is much less a stickler than he used to be about top hats and cutaways at state functions; at a dam dedication last year...
Good Listeners. Before World War II, critics customarily spoke of two major pianistic schools: the dynamic, aloof virtuosity of the Russians (Rachmani noff, Horowitz) and the poetic, relaxed, scholarly Austro-Germans (Schnabel, Serkin). Graffman typifies what may some day be known as the American school, but isn't yet: a synthesis of the best pianists from prewar Russia and Germany, with a range of styles that adapt to any music. "Rachmaninoff," he says, "approached everything the same way. But I approach Prokofiev totally differently from Beethoven, and Beethoven differently from Bach. The difference in approach has to do with...
Another misconception about what's amusing shows in the interpretation of Lysistrata. Marty Ritter plays a little dynamo instead of an elegant, slightly aloof character. So lines like, "there's something about women's temperaments that makes me hate them," come out as expostulations instead of slightly wistful asides. Lysistrata isn't an organization woman: her eyes are set on distant heavens full of available males. In fact, she can hardly wait to be dominated again. Miss Ritter behaves too much like Susan B. Anthony to convey the real dream...
...Woman) has been signed to a multipicture contract at United Artists, as has Polanski at Paramount. The Iron Curtain countries are a continuing source of new talent, and Hollywood studios have dangled fat contracts before Czechoslovakia's Jan Radar, who made Shop on Main Street. Even the customarily aloof Antonioni has become part of the new Hollywood; his next film, Zabriskie Point, will be financed by MGM and shot in the Southwest. It will be, he says, about violence...