Word: evan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evan-Picone, the sportswear firm in which he had an interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the eye of Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount. He hired Evans and has protected his position ever since. Evans is dead serious about Paramount. "Running a major studio is more difficult than running a country," he says without a trace of irony. "A small country...
Northeastern also failed to take advantage of a two-on-one opportunity in the first stanza as Huskie forward Evan McPherson missed an open net by four feet with less than two minutes remaining in the period. Northeastern and Harvard each received one penalty, but neither team could capitalize on the man-up situation...
...coherent and illuminating analysis of thirties culture and society Stott founders on the limits of his literary perspective. Nonetheless where he is good--in discussing single examples of documentary expression from within that point of view, and particularly in his lengthy and brilliant appreciation of Agee's and Evan's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--Stott is superb. His observations on the limitations, superficiality and self-delusions of documentary reportage are incisive. And the recognition that all but the best of documentary writers and journalists treated their subjects as pitiful objects of personal social conscience or else as occasions...
Then a few months ago, a catalogue of a show called "Royal Art of Cameroon," mounted at Dartmouth College, reached Evan Schneider, a longtime Kom scholar and a member of the Peace Corps in Cameroon. There, resplendent in full color on the cover, was the lost Afo-A-Kom. It had been lent to Dartmouth by its new owner, Aaron Furman, a respected Manhattan dealer in primitive art, and it was reportedly on sale...
...MIGHT ASSUME that desperately poor people during the Depression, would feed on the myth of a rich gangster. But where is the Depression? Behind the opening credits, we see black-and-white photographs (mostly Walker Evan's) of America in the throes of Depression. But when the film proper begins in vivid '70s color, any sense of the period vanishes. Although Depression comes up once or twice in dialogue, none of the locals really has that lean and hungry look. The scenery is so picturesque and colorful that we get no sense of the drabness of the period. Even boarded...