Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil war, went on to become a social science teacher, married Khrushchev in 1938. She is his second wife -First Wife Nadezhda died-and she raised Khrushchev's children. Three of the children will be with them in the U.S.: Julia, 38, a chemist, married to Kiev Opera Director Viktor Gonchar; Rada, 29, a biologist, married to Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student at Moscow University. Mostly back home...
Like almost every U.S. community, Lexington (pop. 23,500) is full of skilled specialists and passionate hobbyists. Last year Richard Woodward, 36, director of audio-visual education in Lexington's public schools, decided to find out just how wide and deep the treasure-trove lay. With clerical aid from the League of Women Voters, he mailed out help-wanted appeals to Lexington's 6,800 home addresses. For $186 in postage stamps, he got back a rich haul. Examples...
...cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms of a Sabbath during the crisis-fraught readying of a Broadway play. "Leaving the gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home. It has been a startling change, very like a brief return from the wars. My wife and my boys, whose existence I have almost forgotten . . . are waiting for me, gay, dressed in holiday clothes, and looking to me marvellously attractive. We have sat down...
...supposedly blase French last week lined up along the Champs Elysees to see the latest movie by Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, the man who virtually invented Brigitte Bardot. Forgetting France's reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before...
...honorable but humbling profession." On the face of it, Playwright Hart has little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden in 1952. (There were those who loved it, but it flopped...