Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Congressmen criticized the court for an uneven decision and promised to hopper several bills to change it. With somewhat better cause, Justice John Marshall Harlan criticized Congress for passing "this ill-defined statute," which compelled seven judges to write six separate decisions that settled the claims of five states by setting two different sets of boundaries...
...DEMONSTRATION turned out to be some 30 angry young pickets, who showed up briefly Sunday afternoon to do their stuff in front of the museum. But they were not as alone as they seemed. Coincidentally, 22 of the nation's top artists, including Edward Hopper. Henry Varnum Poor and Jack Levine, fired off a protest to Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. There were, said the artists, 145 paintings in the last Whitney Annual, and of these. "102 were nonobjective, 17 abstract, and 17 semiabstract, leaving only nine paintings in which the image had not receded...
...town in later life Mayer was an equally contradictory character-a classic Hollywood hunter who nevertheless "preferred to think of the women he embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal...
...from John Singleton Copley to Edward Hopper, realism seems the keynote of American art, and romanticism remains underrated. With the single exception of Albert Pinkham Ryder, the American romanticists have never achieved the fame of their realist contemporaries. To collect and cherish such little-known artists takes courage and personal conviction...
...Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (NBC), last week, Actress Marion Davies, "who usually looks a beat 65," appeared as a creamily blonde "25-year-old doll," reported San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Terrence O'Flaherty. How was it done? "A strip of strong, finely woven net is glued along the temple and down almost to the middle of the ear. Tiny hooks are secured to the lace and then the face is made up, hiding everything . . . Rubber bands are looped over the hooks and tied together on top of the head. The tighter the tie, the less the skin dangles...