Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsing two plays for New England's television stations. Miracle on the Danube will be shown in Boston live and in color...
Ernst, nothing that reserve books, atleast, are relatively safe from the practice because of steep fines, called this problem "something we have to live with...
...equally blithe about rumors of assassination plots, some spread by his own aides. Police picked up one crackpot who had planned to toss a pipe bomb ("just for kicks") into a Castro rally in Central Park. "I sleep well and don't worry," said Castro. "I will not live one day more than the day I am going to die." He told the rally of 20,000 Spanish-speaking New Yorkers that "I came for a suffering, backward and hungry Latin America." His aim: "Humanism-liberty with bread." The crowd took up the chant, "Fidel Castro! Fidel...
...cutting of Jeanne Crain's lines ("She's no Duse"), and hesitated not a moment to order the taping of an entire scene from The Browning Version when one actor showed a tendency to blow his lines. (This last maneuver, by a man who has always championed live TV and frowned on tape and other mechanical aids, was as revealing as W. C. Fields's inspired advice to a harassed comic contemporary: "Never mind what...
Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...