Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first few days of the festival were pretty much alike, consisting mostly of tried and true Cheltenham favorites and a couple of new works. But on the sixth day, Sir John produced the nugget of the festival, Stanley Bate's Third Symphony. From the first soft notes on the bassoons, it was clear that the work was a discovery. Unusual tone colors glittered against each other throughout the first two movements, and the finale sizzled to a fine climax with a shooting, presto subject and a rolling, Beethovian coda that finished with a bang...
...Glitter Gulch, the approach to the tourist is straightforward. The Golden Nugget, a large gambling house in the heart of the Gulch, is the richest vein in the big rock candy mountain of Las Vegas. It offers no entertainment, just a multitude of ways to gamble, from wheels of fortune and penny slots to big-time poker games in the back rooms. In Paradise (A or B), the atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere...
...Gold Nugget. After the football seasons at Fenwick, Johnny found time to 1) captain the basketball team and lead it in scoring for four straight years, 2) win two track letters as a dash man (10.3 for 100 yds., 22.3 for 220). Such athletic prowess did not pass unnoticed by the college football scouts...
...Nugget, a Diamond. Paramount had bought Come Back, Little Sheba, and it now made-for Hollywood-the daring decision to let Shirley, who was unknown to moviegoers, play in the movie the same role that she had already played to perfection on Broadway. She flew to the West Coast, shot the movie in a single month, and scored a complete and effortless conquest of the movie colony...
...didn't have to project. It was like telling someone about it confidentially. It all seemed so much more intimate, as, of course, it was, with the camera practically in your navel.'' Her fellow actors were entranced. Burt Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer personality bowl the place over." Starlet Terry Moore was breathlessly thrilled: "Shirley is so lovable...