Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roger Ailes, the impresario of George Bush's triumphant run for the presidency, appeared on television the other day. There arrived shortly a note from the White House: "You were not bad, but your eye contact wasn't great. George...
...Washington Post magazine had done on her. "What did they call you?" Lear asked. " 'Glamorous,' " drawled Mosbacher. "Take it, honey," barked Lear. "They call me 'eccentric.' " Under the gleam of crystal refracted by lemony candlelight, Lear presided over dinner for twelve served by a squadron of waiters. Playing impresario, she deftly focused scattershot conversations into one group topic, spawning debates over the reasons matte eye-shadow sales are soaring (one theory: softens the wrinkles) and whether there will be a woman President -- "Not in my lifetime," insists Lear. Quick and sharp- witted, she suffers fools not at all and snubs...
...biography trenchantly captures the outsize actor, director, illusionist and impresario of the self. -- The dashing double-agentry of Kim Philby...
Unlike previous biographies, Citizen Welles gets to the bottom -- or should one say, false bottom -- of the man. At one level the book projects an old- world Promethean hero thundering against authority and convention. But conveyed with equal weight is an impresario of the self in the American maverick tradition of Charles Ives, Ezra Pound and even Mark Twain's the King and the Duke...
Robbins is a hard man to please; this is one notoriously imperious impresario. "When I work on a show," he says, "I'm a wasp. You know how a wasp buzzes around and keeps you on your toes and worries about everything. There's a sound in the air that keeps everything moving." At times the buzz becomes a sonic boom. "Jerry was still rehearsing during previews," says Victor Castelli, a City Ballet soloist who is assisting Robbins. "The kids are exhausted because they are not used to it, and Jerry will be frustrated and annoyed and will yell...