Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underdog Snarl. Most of Weill's early opera music was the song of Berlin between the wars, the city that Christopher Isherwood wrote about in the Berlin Stories-starvation side by side with luxury, Nazi and Communist bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar...
...idea comes to him as he chats with his "irrefragably feminine" mistress, TV Star Flaire Daire. It is a "big 1960" idea: voters love babies. After a bit of coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...
...20th century, only 16 foundations were set up. Since then, as income and inheritance taxes have climbed, the number of foundations has soared to 7,300, estimates the American Foundations Information Service. Not only is the number increasing at the rate of 200 foundations a year, but the makeup has greatly changed. Of the 260 foundations born between 1900-29, 50% had assets of more than $1,000,000 or were able to give grants of more than $50,000 a year. Of those formed in the 1950s, 80% have had assets of less than $1,000,000. Hundreds...
Failures Make News. Actually, almost any attempt to compare Johnny's reading with that of his parents or grandparents is next to meaningless. Since the public school is now committed to keeping its pupils around, no matter how slow they may be, the makeup of the average classroom as well as the intelligence of state university applicants is entirely different from what it was. In the old days, a poor reader would simply drop out of sight. Today, in the mass, he makes headlines...
Flute music by Eleanor Clark, makeup by Richard Smithies, and startling set and lighting by Edward Stankiewicz and Howard Andrews all combine delicately and to fine effect. The costuming, too, is attractive and appropriate...