Word: basic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever one may think of this line of reasoning, it must be admitted that Berghof has succeeded in doing almost everything he set out to do. His production makes use of the fine two-story basic stage that Robert O'Hearn designed for the Cambridge Drama Festival's shows in Sanders Theatre. High up, Lester Polakov (whose costumes add much to the general lightness and brightness) has affixed a number of white, stylized orange-tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where...
...number of festivals as ambitious as Newport's, and most of them feature the same names, though in lesser concentration. Playboy magazine, having been refused permission to use Chicago's Soldier Field, has contracted for Chicago Stadium (seating 20,000). The likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, Stan Kenton and Cool Comic Mort Sahl (see SHOW BUSINESS) will perform from a revolving stage, facing an audience decked out in souvenir Playboy jazz blazers and skimmers...
...Modigliani is a famous portrait of an emaciated Jean Cocteau, a few basic colors and abstracted elements being used to establish space and volume with thin painting in places subtly suggesting further possibilities for the superimposition of planes...
...favor of decentralized welfare villages and against gigantism, strike many, including Nehru, as hopelessly unrealistic. But he is a powerful force in India nonetheless. Another of India's big guns, 74-year-old Rajendra Prasad, India's figurehead President, recently wrote Nehru a long letter criticizing basic government policies on unemployment, education, food and industrial development...
Beware Deadbeats. Real Estatesman Nickerson's basic action verb is Borrow ("The road to riches is paved with borrowed money''). The parts of his scheme are equally simple: 1) "Buy only property that needs improvement"; 2) "Make selective improvements that increase value," e.g., paint, landscape; 3) "Keep selling at a profit and reinvesting...