Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the finale, Teacher Smith led his pupils onstage. They heard Proprietor Harold Minsky, pleased and professorial, boast: "It was a fast show. Good pace. No milking the acts [i.e., stalling for extra applause]." Teacher Smith hastened to remind his students that 1954 burlesque is merely a joyless corruption of the art of the '10s and '20s when the girls wore tights and such top comedians as Phil Silvers and Fanny Brice actually burlesqued Shakespeare and the opera. True burlesque. Smith declared, is dead...
...skyline, magically beautiful from a distance, is made up mostly of architectural eyesores. The city's die-straight thoroughfares have unparalleled sweep and grandeur, but-save for Central Park-they lack sufficient stopping places for eye and feet, the attractive squares found everywhere in Paris. Finally, Manhattan can boast no artist thought great around the world (in all the U.S. there is only one of such stature: midwestern Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
...museums of the metropolitan area boast over 3,500,000 visitors a year -more than the combined yearly attendance at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Many thousands more visit Manhattan's 150 art galleries, where Superman, if so inclined, might see 1,500 exhibitions in a single season. The city's galleries and art auction houses did a total business last year as great as that of any other capital. And, say gallery men, business will be even bigger this year...
...years-to all outward appearances-the two daily papers in Jackson, Miss. bitterly competed with each other. The afternoon News (circ. 41,361) was run by fire-breathing Fred Sullens, who liked to boast how he beat up his complainants, was once caned by former Governor Paul B. Johnson. He also liked to attack the morning Clarion-Ledger (circ. 47,396), owned by the Hederman family. But despite the appearance of editorial rivalry in the state capital, the two papers worked as one on business and advertising matters...
...deduct the paid rental from the purchase price). Result: the art rental idea has taken hold both of commercial galleries and of museums interested in helping local artists, and is now sweeping the country. New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara all boast rental services, and they are by no means all. Last fortnight Chicago's Art Institute joined the parade; last week the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center did the same...