Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, ten of the world's top architects, busy with clay and sketch pads, clustered last week in a grey-walled conference room. They were there to design a home for the U.N. The youngest of them, a 39-year-old Brazilian named Oscar Niemeyer, had no reason to apologize for his youth, because he had experience beyond his years. While war had immobilized most of the world's architects, Niemeyer and Brazil had been building...
...persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks he might have another go at them...
Whether she realizes it or not, I am of the decided opinion that Oscar-Winner Olivia de Havilland made her discovery that "It's the adjectives that count" [TIME, March 31] not from "reading a lot of books between scripts," but from her husband, Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, author of the novel Delilah...
...Best Years of Our Lives. The Oscar-winning picture of 1946, which also won Oscars for Producer Sam Goldwyn, Director William Wyler, Scripter Robert E. Sherwood, Actors Fredric March and Harold Russell (TIME...
...Best Years of Our Lives. The Oscar-winning picture of 1946, which also won Oscars for Producer Sam Goldwyn, Director William Wyler, Scripter Robert E. Sherwood, Actors Fredric March and Harold Russell (TIME...