Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee that Welles be asked to deliver this prestigious lecture series in 1980. Welles, says Petric, will accept if asked. At present, Petric is preparing a screening of Filming Othello for the Norton Committee. Their invitation, he feels, will not only acknowledge Welles' position in cinema, but will give formal recognition of film as an area deserving of academic attention...
...celebrities and artists were attending a formal dinner, held by TIME and the Smithsonian Institution, to mark a major bequest to the portrait gallery: nearly 900 pieces of original art used for TIME covers during the past 25 years. From this week until Aug. 30, in an exhibition entitled "The TIME of Our Lives," 107 of the covers will be on display. After that, a smaller number will be selected from the collection on a rotating basis and shown in a room permanently provided by the gallery. The covers not on view in Washington will be available for inspection...
Marvin Sadik, director of the gallery, points out that the covers, although contemporary in painting styles, are closely aligned with the museum's older and more formal portraits of Presidents and policymakers, scoundrels and rogues...
...wealthy recluse from Bernardsville, N.J., rents Carnegie Hall and conducts a free concert. She hires the American Symphony Orchestra and various soloists, gets out her 2-ft.-long baton and mounts the podium as maestro for the day-paying some $40,000 for the Mittyesque experience. She has no formal training in conducting. Also she is a frail woman of 81 encumbered with a heavy back brace...
They have taken separate vacations, and now Joan and Ted Kennedy are trying separate homes. While the Senator stays with the three kids in McLean, Va., Joan is living in the family's Back Bay apartment in Boston. Does it mean a formal separation? According to Kennedy's office: no. According to Joan, she and Ted get together at least once a week. Their new living arrangements, she explains, are to enable her to take a course in music at Cambridge's Lesley College. And while she is there, she says, "I'm going...