Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bills for the Square's holiday makeup will be paid by the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, city electrician Vincent L. Moynihan said last night...
Importing the weather from Chicagoland (where there was a blizzard last week) was merely aging (71) Bertie McCormick's latest step in remaking the Times-Herald in the image of his Chicago Tribune. Already, the T-H was using Trib-style type and makeup, parroting its editorials and columnists, using the Trib's truncated spellings (sherif, frate), even leading off the weekly football predictions (piped in from Chicago) with Midwestern games. Cracked one Washington newshand: "All he needs to do is call it the Washington Tribune...
Just as the ushers were getting ready to take up the collection last week at the Pleasant Hill Christian Holiness Church near Elkton, Md., the Rev. Paul Hilbert saw an ominous sight. A man in blackface makeup, carrying a rifle pressed close against his side, slipped through the door and stood waiting at the back of the church...
...mechanics. Rarely have I watched a more fetching crew of loonies than the five who rolled Bottom (played by Fred Gwynne) onstage. Gwynne squeezed every laugh out of the lines Shakespeare gave him and added a few of his own. He and his screwball cohorts used tricks of makeup, mugging, double taking, and simple grouping on stage for comic effect that would make the Marx brothers jealous. They were quite free of restraint and that was probably all for the good...
...took six months and almost put him in the hospital. The banks of arc lights used for color film created murderous heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It took two hours a day to apply his tricky makeup, and in every scene he was dependent, not only on his own art, but on a lackey who perched above him with a fishing rod and manipulated his tail...