Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Show me an actress who isn't a personality," the lady once said, "and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star." Now, at 58, Katharine Hepburn is still very much a star, but she has wearied of Hollywood's personality fetish; she grants few interviews, is rarely seen outside her private circle of friends, has even hired an agency to keep her out of the public eye. There was nothing she could do, though, about the exhibit opening last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which paid...
...Lakme, Romeo and Juliet and particularly Carmen. Between performances, she popularized opera on radio, starred in movies, and went on innumerable concert tours. "There is a feeling, particularly around New York," she once said, "that audiences around the country want only the potboilers and insist on them. This simply isn't true...
...expensive, documented from all sides, Voyager pays Crane the usual tribute of trying to understand him in perspective. This isn't always easy. The word was actually "made flesh" for Crane in love affairs with sailors. He threw typewriters out of windows. "I saw all the trees below his window festooned with the typewriter ribbon," a friend remembers. Still, Unterecker cautions, "if Crane tossed out of windows everything that his acquaintances have him tossing, most of America, half of Europe, and all of Mexico would still be littered with far-flung typewriters." He invaded the lives of his many...
...then there's the more complicated, less conscious evil of the Federal government. The U.S. isn't supposed to do business with companies that discriminate. But they've got contracts up to here with The American Can Company. The American Can Company has its own little company-run town in Bellamy, Alabama. Stores, schools, churches, and neighborhoods are segregated in Bellamy. There's no plumbing in the Negro homes, their streets aren't paved, they get paid less. It's a really tough town. Jim Peppler, the Courier's dare-anything photographer who took pictures of some of the meanest...
Mississippi is probably one of the only places left that nature still has control of Most of the land isn't farmed or inhabited, it's just wild jungle. We departed from the main highway and went speding through the night with top off on this up-and-down, curving, two-lane country road. We were going about sixty-five or seventy with the sound of the jungle roaring out at us from both sides. It was either five million grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together at same time or lots of big whooping birds crying into the swamp...