Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though there were sound male performers in the cast (Steve Hill, Hume Cronyn), the TV play belonged to the women. As the perichole (half-breed bitch), Viveca Lindfors munched off the scenery with her "razor tongue" until the pox dulled her cutting edge and brought pathos to the role. Judith Anderson played the mad. fatuous marquesa in a style that would have fit nicely into a theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred...
Schaus soon found that the West Virginia hills grow a hardy breed of human kangaroos on high school basketball courts, now sets out night after night over the winding West Virginia roads in his 1957 Chevrolet to search for talent at high school games. Ohio-born Coach Schaus uses a recruiting argument that seems to work: he went out of his state to play ball, he explains, and now is almost a stranger back home. The moral: stay home and stay known...
Died. Andrew Geer, 52, brawny military novelist and historian (The New Breed), who joined the British army in World War II, served with Montgomery's Desert Rats in North Africa, later, as a U.S. Marine captain, saw action at Saipan and Iwo Jima, as a major commanded a battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, authored the bestselling (2,000,000 copies) war novel The Sea Chase; of cancer; in San Rafael, Calif...
...cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse, he got a close look at the King Ranch's own Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle and the clanking oil-digging rigs. At week's end he flew on to California and a trip to Disneyland...
...Feel, Think, Imagine." One of the new breed of action painters. Soulages follows the trail blazed by Hans Hartung (TIME, April i), but carries to the extreme the view that "reality is not in appearance alone, but also in what men feel, think, imagine." For him, even the calligraphy of brush strokes is anathema, a romantic hangover from the days when the viewer, willy-nilly, could follow the painter's hand, guess and second-guess his intentions and hesitations. Soulages. with his plank-sized strokes, aims to hit the spectator with one knockout blow...