Word: ardors
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...clicked immediately. In less than a year, they were earning $30,000 a week at Manhattan's Copacabana night club. In live appearances at movie theaters they stoked ardor of Beatles intensity. But it was on the infant medium of TV that Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. Their jokes became instant catchphrases, like the running gag where Jerry...
...hands of hard-line anti-American conservatives, led by Ahmadinejad and supported by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Together they have used the Bush Administration's opposition as an opportunity to crack down on reformists. Ahmadinejad initially greeted Obama's victory with a rare congratulatory letter, though his ardor then seemed to cool as he called on the U.S. to "halt your support to the uncultivated and rootless, forged, phony, killers-of-women-and-children Zionists, and allow the Palestinian nation to determine its own destiny." But after Obama's press conference, Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready for "talks...
...Unlike their contemporary counterparts, revolutionary artists painted without cynicism and with plenty of socialist ardor. That doesn't mean that their work was immune from interference or mishandling. When Shen Jiawei's Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland - a heroic masterpiece of three guards in a watchtower high above a snowy landscape - was first exhibited in Beijing in 1974, the faces of the soldiers had been made fuller, fiercer and pinker on Jiang Qing's orders. In the present exhibition, the painting has been restored to the image intended by the artist, now a highly acclaimed portraitist in Australia...
...show was so hot, way more than it deserved to be. It’s sort of like being a rookie and going straight to the World Series and never going back.” And while he notes that recent seasons haven’t inspired the same ardor, he believes that SNL is now a more polished, sophisticated, and better-written production.Downey recently garnered attention for the spot-on political sketches that he wrote for SNL, particularly the Sarah Palin skits he wrote for Tina Fey. “When I do political stuff, I just want...
...Hubbard; actor and talisman in more than 50 films (The Howling, Beverly Hills Cop III, Amazon Women on the Moon); editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and creator of the Vampirella comic book franchise. But each of these trades was an exponent of his educated ardor for science fiction, fantasy and horror, and his need to share that consuming appetite...