Word: high-strung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...
...Love. When he is not playing adman, businessman, referee and editor, Cerf devotes a good part of his time to keeping his authors happy. Fortunately, he enjoys it, even when his high-strung writers curl into knots. He likes to tell about the time that Sinclair Lewis spent a night at the Cerf apartment. "He had dinner," Cerf recalls, "and we were all sitting at the table. Then Bill Faulkner called up and said he was in town. I told Lewis and asked him, could Bill come over? Lewis said, 'Certainly not. This is my night!' Then...
...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...
...engagement. The official rationale was that since Tarsis' most recent underground novel, Ward 7, concerns his experience as a political prisoner in an insane asylum, he is a certified lunatic, hence not legally liable for his ravings. At a press conference, Tarsis sounded sane enough though a bit high-strung. He roundly condemned Soviet "police fascism," "bandit fascism," and "the government, which has betrayed the national cause." Then he sounded very much like any other author anywhere. "I am very sad that my books haven't sold well enough in the West," he remarked, adding hopefully, "I hear...
...sound." On tour he travels with his own Steinway ("Can you imagine Oistrakh playing with Stern's violin?") and personal piano tuner, 71-year-old Cesare Augustus Tallone. With a surgeon's knowledge of the piano's inner workings, Michelangeli treats his Steinway like a high-strung child, recently relinquished it to be overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn't been broken in yet." For the Paris concert, Tallone scoured the city for days to find a substitute piano, then spent 20 hours preparing it for the master's hands...