Word: gangsterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bound clod whose likeness is preserved in the Oscar statuette. There were some good ones, however, including one quip on the gritty mood of current moviemaking. For the best sup porting actor award, Hope pointed out, "those in contention are actors who played a juvenile delinquent, a Nazi, a gangster, a gambler and a poolroom hustler...
...been forced, but the enthusiasm was not. Spring had come to New England. Its harbinger: the 91st annual flower show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The place was packed with busloads of garden clubwomen (and a few dedicated men) who stood ogling the floral displays like mourners at a gangster's funeral. The highlight of the show was the formal garden of acacias and fountains from the Great Hill Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stone of Marion. Mass. The gold-blossomed acacia trees, insured with Lloyd's of London for $100,000. had survived beautifully their recent...
Getlein recalled that a few years ago Critic Harold Rosenberg, the man credited with inventing the term "action painting," denounced a canvas by Realist Jack Levine for an odd reason. The painting was of a gangster's funeral, and Rosenberg said that since everyone knew all about gangsters already, Levine was a mere formalist. The abstract expressionists, with their great swirls and blots, showed something no man had ever seen before. They were, therefore, the truer artists. Getlein noted that Rosenberg's "tradition of the new," if carried to its logical conclusion, would pretty much dispose of Michelangelo...
...some basic reforms and muzzles his thugs. To cut off all help, Washington argues, would mean even more misery for Haiti's jampacked (almost 400 per sq. mi.) population. As a European diplomat in Port-au-Prince put the dilemma: "If you help Haiti, you are keeping a gangster in power. If you don't, you're being cruel to a poor Negro people...
...take Hollywood by storm." Gleason told his friends, but Warner Bros, today does not even remember that he was there. He was miscast (gangster, blue-eyed Arab) in a few pictures and spent most of his time performing at Slapsie Maxie's nightclub. Gleason would drink iced-tea tumblers full of whisky ("No booze, no laughs" was his motto) before going onstage to sing and dance and do improvisations, low comedy, and devastating imitations of more celebrated performers. Retreating to New York, and turned down for service in World War II on physical grounds, Gleason spent several professionally lean...