Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toning. The problem with "When the Street Lights Come On" was slightly different. S.-Wilkerson's work of jazzy music and glowing lights found character in moments of deft energy and crisp form--but large parts of the dance looked arbitrary, playing with a series of beginnings that never grew...
There were formidable practical problems in making Holocaust. First planned for six hours, the mini-series grew and grew. By the end, 150 actors and 1,000 extras had been employed; 100 miles of film had been shot. Director Marvin Chomsky, who also did half of Roots, even had to miss his father's funeral in the U.S. to keep up with his shooting schedule in Vienna. He felt his father, who had been a Zionist in the 1920s, would have wanted it that...
...grew up in the Rumanian capital, Bucharest, then a city of about half a million people?the right size, neither cramped village nor crushing megalopolis. He spoke three tongues, Rumanian, French and "the secret language of my parents," Yiddish. "Childhood," he recalls, "was very strong. It stayed like a territory, like a nation. In my childhood the days were extremely long. I was high all the time without realizing it: extremely high on elementary things, like the luminosity of the day and the smell of everything ? mud, earth, humidity; the delicious smells of cellars and mold; grocers' shops...
...whatever the pleasures of Milan in the late '30s, the countervailing fact was that Steinberg, a Jew?and a foreign Jew at that?was living under a Fascist regime which grew more anti-Semitic by the week. He graduated as a Dottore in Architettura in 1940; and on his diploma, awarded in the name of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, King of Albania and (thanks to Mussolini and his bombers) Emperor of Ethiopia, was written "Steinberg Saul... di razza Ebraica "(of the Jewish race). "It was some kind of safeguard for the future, meaning that although...
...meantime, his books and albums accumulated: All in Line, his wartime drawings, in 1945: The Passport in 1954; The Labyrinth in 1960. As they did so, his reputation steadily grew, and he began to enter that choppy strait, much roiled by the currents of American aesthetic puritanism, where the "illustrator" or "cartoonist" finds his reputation crossing to that of "artist...