Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never dead." His paintings of bulls silhouetted against hot-colored sand were even livelier than the still lifes. Says Marchand, who returned from Arles with a headful of fact & fancy about fighting bulls: "Do you know they always die at night, standing up, their eyes turned toward the moon...
...when he won a Curtis Institute conducting fellowship with Fritz Reiner. In 1944 he was discharged from two years of Army service, during which he had led a dance band, the Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...
...dramatic quality, Miner admits that it's mostly a matter of guesswork: "Plays considered surefire ahead of broadcasting time usually end up at the bottom-that happened to comedies like June Moon and Boy Meets Girl. But Turgenev's Smoke, which was expected to leave people cold, was one of the most popular we've ever done." And he adds: "There are some shows I've put on that I personally hate, but I know there's an audience for them. TV's a mass medium and there has to be something for everybody...
...managed to move the evil Kostchei and his 40 demons back & forth diagonally in four groups, so that City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that let Choreographer Balanchine, Conductor Leon Barzin and the whole cast know...
...with the severe regimen of a Sadler's Wells ballerina-an endless round of class, rehearsals and performances-the champagne & lobster life comes only once in a blue moon. Margot would be among the first to agree with Frederick Ashton that "being a ballerina is like being a nun; it is a dedication...