Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's top architects, including France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, had joined in deciding what the U.N. headquarters, on Manhattan's East Side, should look like. When their tentative plan was first announced (TIME, June 2, 1947), it raised a storm of protest. Howled one architect: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars...
...original Show Boat. For the next 15 years she did bits or sang in choruses in The Green Pastures, St. Louis Woman, Sing Out, Sweet Land!, etc. She also organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein saw her in audition for Talent '48, a private revue put on by the Stage Managers Club for their Broadway friends, that Juanita got headed for that "right role...
...picture itself, it really is a fine job. Riches and ornament are lavished upon it but something sets it apart from the ordinary brassy Technicolor revue: possibly the plot, possibly the staging, possibly the perennial wisecracks of Oscar Levant. But however you look at it, credit will eventually bounce back on Astaire and Rogers. Cast as a bickering husband-wife stage team, these two leap, slide, and tap their way through scene after scene of pleasant comedy and wonderful dancing, and what's more, seem to enjoy...
...Among his subjects: Oscar Wilde, Sydney Smith, Gilbert & Sullivan, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Paine, William Hazlitt, Arthur Conan Doyle...
Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...