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...good year before she reached Eldorado in Bonnie and Clyde, Actress Faye Dunaway, 27, signed a six-picture deal with Producer-Director Otto Preminger, well known as the fastest litigant in the West. One turkey was born of that union-Hurry Sundown -and Faye went her own way to stardom. Now Preminger wants her back under the terms of their contract, and filed suit in New York complaining that she failed to show up for work as ordered for the beginning of a new picture. Otto wants damages, plus an injunction that would keep her from working for anyone else...
Miserable & Mad. Indeed, the slightly schizoid Romantic preoccupation with nature and the supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside...
...Native-Born Leaders. World War II marked the beginning of a change for Orthodoxy. Hitler's holocaust wiped out the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, where most of Orthodoxy's spiritual leaders lived; Orthodox communities elsewhere started to develop more of their own native-born leaders, many of whom were less inhibited by tradition-and were shaken by the fact that thousands of young Jews were abandoning the faith for less rigorous branches of Judaism, or for no faith...
...mocks "overstates," the "crisis-glut" and determined problem solvers. "A solved problem creates two new problems," he writes, "and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to." A sober Washington reporter himself until a sense of futility overcame him, Virginia-born Baker became the Times's first humor columnist six years ago. He uses humor, he says, "to strike a blow for sanity...
...Born in Austria, Lida is the author of Belleza, Arte y Poesia en la Estetica de Santayana, Letras Hispanicas, and Condicion del Poeta...