Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature," the "solid, rational decorum," the interrogative "Mnunmm . . ." turning into a clearing of the throat, that knowledge wavers. Yet finally something comes from the man, more I think from the eyes than else-where, which restores conviction, and one knows again that accretions of fame and power have not calcified his curiosity or entombed his human sympathies...
When Shakespeare plays television, he usually loses. A line here, a scene there, disappears under the chopper as all that spirit is crammed onto the 21-inch screen. The total effect, too frequently, is bottled bard. But this week NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame pulled out the cork, took a full setting and two hours for an excellent, virtually uncut production of Macbeth...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6-8 p.m.). Maurice Evans and Dame Judith Anderson lead a first-rate cast in Macbeth. Color...
...radio scriptwriter on "a schedule so tight," he remembers, "that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde, turned out great hunks of audiopageantry for Philco Hall of Fame and Cavalcade of America, all the while keeping dark the personal secret that he was an heir to the loverly fortune that his father (once an Atlantic City dentist) and uncles had built up by converting a small blouse-making firm into the national chain called Lerner Shops...
...burly Karel Appel is Holland's best-known living painter, but greater fame and fortune came to him from out-side his native land. Last week, out of 131 paintings from 28 nations, most of them on display at Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Appel copped the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the fattest of all international art prizes, for a violent, swirling abstraction called Woman with Ostrich, in which neither woman, nor ostrich was particularly recognizable except to those who have been overexposed to the Rorschach inkblot tests. At the Martha Jackson Gallery a few blocks south...