Word: gills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parabola of the Porter career is one beloved by backstage biographers. As Brendan Gill's brisk, uncritical Cole showed, the life was filled with laughter, tragedy, a soupçon of scandal and above and below all, money. For unlike the customary theatrical melodrama, Cole's life progressed from riches to riches. Schwartz's Cole Porter is marred by ungainly prose, but its detail is copious and its story irresistible...
Porter deserves a biography as witty and entertaining as he was. Given the complexity of his work, he will no doubt get one some day. Brendan Gill did not write it, nor has Charles Schwartz, a professor of music at Manhattan's Hunter College. Though Schwartz gives the facts of Porter's life, he has forgotten too much of the fun. His book truly comes to life only when he quotes his subject's lyrics. The difference between stolid narration and bright rhymes is the difference, in Cole Porter's words, between the good turtle soup...
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...control for the bad morale that has recently plagued the association. A widespread criticism is that he stayed on too long and that under him the N.A.A.C.P. has acted too timidly. Wilkins' difficulties began with the deaths in 1974 of his two closest friends: N.A.A.C.P. Board Chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood and Assistant Director John A. Morsell, Wilkins' hand-picked successor. Wilkins' own health began to deteriorate following an emergency operation last March for the removal of a kidney stone...
...latest collection of movie reviews from Pauline Kael. Leonard's judgement may strike many as over-blown, or at least as a case of the pot calling the kettle sterling. But people gossip and debate more today about critics and commentators than about the events they cover. Brendan Gill cashed in on this new phenomenon with "Here at the New Yorker," as did Timothy Crouse with "Boys on the Bus." This summer, the scent of profit in this new field brings us a look at office politics at (it's come to this) The Village Voice...