Word: gleason
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...most senior member of the department, Porter Professor of Fine Arts James S. Ackerman, is considered the world's foremost authority on Renaissance architecture. His renown is matched by colleague Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, whom National Gallery of Art Director Sydney Freedberg has called the foremost Rembrandt scholar in the world...
...point in the interviewing process, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive, the committee's chairman, asked Stirling what his favorite museum was. The answer: The Dulwich Art Gallery in England, designed by Sir John Soane...
Except for shows like Jackie Gleason and Mickey Mouse Club, my parents wouldn't let me watch TV. Part of the reason is that, when I was four or five years old, when I did see things on TV I got scared. I remember crying for hours after I saw a documentary on snakes. That was the beginning of the end of TV for me. For six years my dad would rig the set with booby traps so he could tell if I snuck TV time while they were out to dinner. But I sneaked anyway. When baby-sitters would...
Ralph and Ed. Kramden and Norton. The names are permanently linked together and set in that perfectly drab, 1950s New York City apartment occupied by The Honeymooners. Jackie Gleason, 69, and Art Carney, 66, reprised their famous roles once for a TV special seven years ago, but they have not otherwise worked together. Explains Gleason: "The only way Art and I could do something, to play characters who were not the Honeymooners, was if we did real people." This month they got their chance. They are filming a TV movie about two famed undercover Prohibition agents, Izzy Einstein...
...generation of viewers may be just as delighted with the shows Gleason has pulled out of his Ali Baba's cave in Florida. One of Ralph's more tender lines to Alice could be applied to each of the four star players: "Baby, you're the greatest...