Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real musical--the first musical comedy in the United States. It was also the first of many Pudding dishes to tour, playing Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The question of the first truly "original" Pudding show is open to debate although the Class of 1867's claim is the earliest, and hence the accepted...
Ernst was born in a small town outside Cologne. His father was a schoolteacher. From earliest childhood Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images. Some came during sickness. He remembers being ill and staring for hours at some mahogany plywood paneling, discerning there the shape of a dove, a nightingale, a girl-chimera-all familiar in his work...
Prince, a native of Manhattan, was a matinee addict; one of his earliest theatrical memories is of being mesmerized by Orson Welles playing in Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theater. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English in 1948, he so impressed Director George Abbott with his enthusiasm that he was hired as a "call boy," the factotum who tells actors when they are to go onstage. Then, as now, Prince was prone to nervousness, and first night out he lost his voice. After two years off for Army service, he was rehired...
...special issues to the genre. Photography, probably just because it appears to reproduce reality, has always been able to create the grotesque and surreal, and these issues demonstrated that the sequence was particularly well suited to creating fantastic moments out of a series of everyday images. One of the earliest practitioners of the sequence, Duane Michaels, uses eight frames in one of his works to show a young girl coming into a room and climbing into cardboard carton, which then floats out of the frame, and apparently right through the ceiling...
...stand it when we are talked to like that. So I said to the Pope, 'Your Holiness, do you know what my earliest memory is? A pogrom in Kiev. When we were merciful and when we had no homeland and when we were weak, we were led to the gas chambers...