Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...festival. But before this corrida occurs, Luis goes into a slump. An older matador is killed by a bull, Luis' girl and his best friend are killed together in an automobile crash, and Luis Bello can no longer stand up to the bulls. For the first time in his career, he is afraid of the horns. Forced into the Cuenca corrida, Luis conquers his fear and regains his bull fighting spirit...
DICKENS: HIS CHARACTER, COMEDY & CAREER (361 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
...Path. His Paris work, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, had ended Villon's long career as a rather dull Old Faithful of cubism. To make a little money for his old age, Villon had had to turn aside from his dogged cubism to do newspaper cartoons, architectural prints, and color reproductions of the paintings of his famous contemporaries. In his new life, he no longer had to worry about such workaday chores. At 74, Villon was selling as never before, and he had become the toast of Paris' young painters. His new pictures, they agreed...
Ingrid Bergman, wife of Dr. Peter Lindstrom, neurosurgeon, has a ten-year-old daughter and a pleasant Hollywood home. She has also had a smashingly successful career. But her last two movies (Arch of Triumph, Joan of Arc) did not measure up to her own standards of art. "I am willing to break my neck," she told a reporter, "to do something new." After she had seen the Italian-made prizewinning movies, Open City and Paisan, she wrote Director Roberto Rossellini: "If you ever need an actress with a Swedish accent, just call...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...