Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist is in the audience," said Herman, with apparently some ironic intent, "will he please raise his hand so that we may applaud him?" From poolside, his feet still dangling in the water, the maestro put his hand to his mouth and uttered a piercing Indian...
DOROTHY COLLINS. Remember her? The singing companion of Snooky Lanson on television's Your Hit Parade. The put-on artist of Candid Camera! A local talent contest winner from Windsor, Ont., she was discovered by her first husband, Bandleader Raymond Scott, 17 years her senior. Her second, Tony Award Singer Ron Holgate (1776), is ten years her junior (she is 44). She has two children by her first marriage, one by her second. All three live with the Holgates in a pleasant Dutch colonial house in New Jersey. Dorothy's homebody role in Follies, like Alexis Smith's elegant...
...eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...Margaret Mead," and between father and son there exists not so much gap as "gulf." Believing "in life chronological rather than in life ex istential," Ward seeks to re-create the frontier past from his grandfather's relics and the prolific papers and sketches of his artist grandmother...
...made tedious by its subject's now fairly conventional opinions-but when the reporting breaks forth it does so with an energy that approximates the frenzy of good, crazy fiction. "Groovy" Hutchinson, the drifter who was murdered alongside Linda Fitzptarick, comes on like a Ken Kesey hero, a con artist who ultimately can't scramble back into the society that has maimed him. Jerry Rubin appears in a whole series of guises-from young Jimmy Olsen-type reporter to revolutionary vaudevillian. And, in what is possibly the best piece of the lot, Lukas follows young Watts poet Johnny Scott into...