Word: dropper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Observations, by Richard Avedon. Photographer Avedon proves himself an accomplished face dropper in this fascinating series of keyhole studies of the famous...
...good fashion photographer, is brilliantly skillful, tirelessly careful, madly inventive. But he also has the vices of trick, splash and artiness. In his pictures he never murmurs if he can shout. He is a determined celebrity chaser, and with Observations he establishes himself as an accomplished face-dropper. Among his best pages...
...Economics Department has also instituted a Junior Tutorial for Credit, Economics 98, to replace the Junior Honors Course, Economics 100. Four other Economics courses have been dropper from the undergraduate section of the catalogue. Economics 109 and 151, Economic Aspects of Population and Public Finance, respectively, will not be given this year; and Economics 111b and 113b, courses which were not given this year, but which were to be next year, do not appear in the new catalogue...
Married in 1946 to Dancer Vera Zorina (his second), Lieberson likes to be a friend of the famous, is an untiring name-dropper. He was delighted when Rosemary Clooney substituted his name for Franklin Roosevelt's in her recording of How About You?, came up with: "And Goddard Lieberson's looks give me a thrill." Now Lieberson is guiding Columbia into stereophonic sound, this year is planning 200 stereo albums. He is convinced that stereo is a logical refinement of LP rather than another technological revolution, that what is put on records is still more important than...
Tireless Name-Dropper Elsa Maxwell, reporting for the Hearstpapers her latest encounters with the well-known, recorded some brief banter with a sly curmudgeon of old. "I once asked Bernard Shaw which was his favorite Shakespearean comedy," wrote Elsa, "and he replied. 'Othello.' 'But Othello is not a comedy,' I told him. 'It's a tragedy.' Mr. Shaw quipped, 'Any play whose plot hangs on a lady's handkerchief must be a comedy...