Word: arthur
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...shows take varying approaches to the task of explaining an artist. An early program on Architect Philip Johnson, for instance, simply depended on the words of the articulate artist himself. Another, Private Conversations, chronicled the creative process, eavesdropping on the filming of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman. The behind-the-scenes glimpses were illuminating but not especially pretty. After 90 minutes of intense ego management, the participants seemed diminished, not enhanced, by the scrutiny...
...clean-living capital of the antipornography crusade might be Cincinnati, where Charles Keating Jr. began a moral crusade in the 1950s that residents have carried on ever since. Arthur Ney, the county prosecutor, says, "There is not one X-rated movie house or bookstore in the county today. They know if they bring them in here, we're going to enforce the law." The Meese commission report, says Steve Hallman, director of Citizens Concerned for Community Values of Greater Cincinnati, "will give momentum nationwide to obscenity-law enforcement...
...from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic, stars of a 1980 Broadway revival of Brigadoon, performed Almost Like Being in Love. Julie Andrews sang Lerner's favorite non-Lerner showstopper, If Love Were All, from Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said, "Few men in our melancholy age brought so much pleasure to so many people." Loewe, 85 and living in Palm Springs, Calif., sent a letter addressing Lerner. "It won't be long," he said, "before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have...
...reason for that relative lack of concern is that the new stock index futures markets, which may have helped trigger last week's selling, give institutional investors the opportunity to hedge against sudden losses. Said Arthur Randall, a broker with the E.F. Hutton investment house: "It takes much more than 80 points and two days to convince them that the party is over...
...Tribble, an acquaintance who lives well and drives a Mercedes. Reports circulated that Tribble was seen with Bias in various places around Washington in the early morning before the athlete's death and accompanied him back to his dormitory at 5 a.m., about an hour before he was stricken. Arthur Marshall, state's attorney for Prince Georges County, vowed to develop a manslaughter case if the dealer who sold the fatal cocaine can be identified. Said he: "Just remember the Belushi case...