Word: oftenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame? In trying to answer that question, critics are baffled by the fact that television is a shapeless giant that often seems to be functioning without a head...
...American imagination has become the most powerful stream of Western thought and culture," declared London's Times Literary Supplement last week in a weighty (28 articles) survey of U.S. culture. The U.S. architecture is "poetic, structural, febrile." Abstract art now powerfully expresses U.S. imagination-"sometimes grotesque, often naive, but never pale, never passive." Realism, by contrast, seems now "like a political party defeated in a landslide." As for U.S. patrons: "No social group in history has been so willing to spend money on the arts and sciences...
...scientists note with mixed feelings the high social status of their Soviet colleagues. Top Russian scientists live like top U.S. business executives, with city apartments, houses in the country, chauffeur-driven cars and servants. Their U.S. counterpart often earns less than the plumber who cleans his drains. Even low-ranking Russian scientists get all sorts of special privileges. Scientists, for instance, do not queue up like common people; they go right to the head of the line, and nobody objects...
...perfectionist," says a former employee. "He applies this rule to people as well as products and advertising." Revson pays attention to the smallest details, often spends weeks working out the right name or the exact shade for a new lipstick or nail enamel, personally selects models and approves their clothing. He even had his employees' telephones tapped to make sure they were doing their jobs right...
...another H.A. has its heehaws at just about all the going cliches of pseudo-sophisticated comedy-interfering in-laws, kindly bartenders, expense-account romances, television blurbs, know-it-all brats and the sort of progressive school that gives "two weeks off for Halloween." The dialogue is often gamy and the situations farce-fetched, but Director David Miller and his stars have made the most of some sharp wit-snapping...