Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really the case? What party, what elected leader ever used censorship of art as the "cutting edge" of a campaign that eventually suppressed freedom and democracy as well? My own reading of history is that democratically elected leaders who moved toward dictatorship (e.g., Adolf Hitler) have had a funny habit of turning their first attention not toward art, but toward politics, toward such time-worn methods as declaring states of emergency, outlawing opposition parties and disbanding parliaments...
Usually on the day after an opening, Prince has an appointment set up to talk about a new project- a trick he learned from George Abbott, "so that no matter what happens, you feel you are still working." His habit is to get one night's sleep and plunge back to work, either as a producer in his bright, psychedelic office in Rockefeller Center or as a director in a spartan white study at the top of his Manhattan town house. After the draining experience of Night Music, however, he plans to sit and read for a while...
Jack Guerney, (Peter O'Toole), the 13th Earl of Guerney has just come into his inheritance by his father's fatal eccentricity. (The old man accidentally hung himself to death in a cocktail hour habit of stringing himself up by the neck in ballerina regalia.) But Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the God of Love, a charming and loveable idiot who can't stop raving about goodness and love. (Jack's explanation for his divine identity is this: "When I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself...
...want the taxman to know how much they paid for what, and neither do dealers. The availability of a painting may be the occasion for as much conspiratorial hoo-ha and discreetly vicious elbowing as anything in the annals of industrial espionage. It is fun. It becomes a habit of mind, a badge of club membership. And some of the Met's difficulties, it seems, arise from this deeply ingrained reflex...
...well. Their audience has ranged from 4.5 million for Paar to 5 million for the week of mystery shows to 4.1 million for Cavett. But all-including Cavett-have done better than the old Cavett show alone. It remains to be seen whether viewers, normally creatures of almost daily habit, will opt for a less varied format on some other network once Wide World's novelty wears...