Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atlanta seemed to have the jump on most cities; there the new speech, far more than a few disconnected words, is fast growing into a full-fledged slanguage. Two youngsters meet with the new Atlanta greeting, "Ahhh, Rooshan!" The conversation goes...
...capsule, Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week gave gallerygoers a history of 20th Century U.S. art. With 176 paintings and sculptures by Whitney-nurtured artists, it was staging a memorial exhibit for Juliana Force, until her death last year the museum's hardworking, fast-talking director...
...year-old Lautrec died, his delicate health overtaxed by Montmartre's fast-paced night life. Demanding the best in printing, colors and paper, he had gained little from his excursions into "commercial" art beyond the satisfaction of a job magnificently done. But by last week his posters, which had at one time decorated kiosks, boulevard hoardings and alley walls all over Paris, were collectors' items bringing prices up to $400 a copy...
Smooth Blend. Just how 37-year-old Wald does it rankles his detractors, who cultivate the legend that he is one of the Hollywood comers who sat for the composite portrait of the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's novel, What Makes Sammy Run?. Like Sammy, he broke into the movies as a hack scripter. Like Sammy, Jerry has stoked his career with a singleminded ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit...
...completed ten years later, shows Cervantes as absolute master of his matter, his manner and his man. Don Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived," the knight mournfully admits. Yet hand and eye are not enough. When an enchanter turns a castle into a mere mill before his eyes, Don Quixote despairs...