Word: lovingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Showfolk love martyrology as much as political people do. Fearing and loving the audience which has so much power over them, the temptation to present someone like Bruce as a misunderstood genius, an artist ahead of his reactionary times is irresistible. So Director Fosse cops out, buying and selling, without...
The outline for the first series was based partly on the stories of Eileen's parents, an underbutler and a needlewoman in the Edwardian era, and partly by Jean's reading preferences. She wanted the servants to talk with the uncontaminated candor of Ivy Compton-Burnett's...
Bumpers' campaign style is awesome, even in the tall-tale-loving, flesh-pressing South. He did not just shake a voter's hand and pass on. He found out the man's name, rolled it over his tongue a few times, inquired about his relatives and, more...
Fiorello! is based on the early career of Fiorello H. LaGuardia up to the start of his successful campaign for mayor of New York City in 1933. His biography is a mere thread of a plot to connect a series of vignettes about fun-loving politicians in the 1920s. In...
Ives' work remains easier to praise than to listen to. At its most difficult, it ranks with late Beethoven, Bartók and Schoenberg for complexity. Even "friendly" works, like the two string quartets and Three Places in New England, take a lot of loving to like. But then...