Search Details

Word: gilberte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sure of himself as an actor, a confidence that comes from years of training. In high school, he left Sewanee for Minneapolis to spend a year at the Minneapolis Theater School. Every summer has been spent in summer stock. He has appeared in three Hasty Pudding theatricals, two Gilbert and Sullivan productions and numerous other productions including Play, where he and two other actors performed sitting in urns. Freshman year he was in five shows plus the Pudding. "And I was also trying to convince myself I was a mathematics major, which was tough." Fall semester junior year, already...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: ...And It Pays Badly, Too | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...much prefer the directing role and the writing. I like having control of the project," Litt says. Which is not to say that the Cleveland native ignores acting. The North House resident has appeared in Candide, School for Wives, the Gilbert and Sullivan production of Iolanthe. She has also directed an eclectic group of plays, from Peter Pan to the medieval mystery play The Second Shepherd's Play to her own Epiphany and The Unsupervised Infant...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: ...And It Pays Badly, Too | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...brunet." Cartland admits that "at first I was a little worried because all my heroines are blond." Her fears were soon banished by Bonham Carter's breathless portrayal of Serena, the young beauty who is whisked away by the evil Marquis of Vulcan, played by Marcus Gilbert. Bonham Carter has meatier roles in mind but knows she may have to age a little to get them: "I'm always surprised when I look in a mirror at how callow I look. But I'm not going to stay like this forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 1, 1987 | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...paid well; Helen Gurley Brown, still Cosmo's guiding light at 65, reportedly earns $500,000 a year, plus a slice of her magazine's profits. But middle-level staffers tend to earn less than their colleagues at other magazine-publishing companies, and turnover is high. Bennack and Gilbert Maurer, president of the magazine division, pride themselves on giving editors freedom in running their publications, though the absolute power is not always uplifting. "Working at Hearst is like life in the Medici Palace," observes a longtime Hearst executive. "All is favoritism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Spurning A Father's Advice | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Understandably, The Ideal Copy pursues the same directions as the members' solo projects, most notably Colin Newman's recent records and Lewis and Gilbert's "He Said" releases. Guitars are buried low in the mix, if present at all, while sequencers and keyboards define the song structures. "The Point of Collapse" is built around a synthesizer riff of which Depeche Mode would be proud, while "Ahead" mines the dance-rock territory of New order. The menacing "Feed Me" follows the style of latter-day quasi-industrialists SWANS without achieving the genuine horror of the latter's aural experiments...

Author: By Joseph D. Penachio, | Title: Wire We Listening? | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | Next