Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oscar Levant was easy. He just wanted to know "how much...
There Ethel Barrymore and Ruth Gordon made their debuts. There, in 1895, at the height of the Oscar Wilde scandal, The Importance of Being Earnest had a panicky U.S. premiere, closed in a week. There, in 1927, Edouard Bourdet's subtle, Lesbian The Captive was closed by the police. There, for over three years and 1,300 performances, Life With Father has been playing...
...things in O'Keeffe's flowers. Critic Lewis Mumford has seen a celebration of "almost every phase of the erotic experience." Said he: "Socrates learned about love from the priestess Diotima; but if he were alive today, he would probably go to O'Keeffe." Painter Oscar Bluemner has written: ". . . O'Keeffe steps forth as [an] . . . imaginative biologist of all creation . . . extending perhaps beyond the confines of the human body." While O'Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico...
...before 1900. Dr. M. F. Smarts, half his age, who had a chemical Ph.D., came in over his head as superintendent. Both men were profoundly embarrassed about the situation; both knew it was just and inevitable. They respected and rather liked each other; only the nervousness of General Manager Oscar Sayers made their first meeting difficult. The dialogue among these three is as perfectly calibrated as Lardner, and at least as historically illuminating...
...people of the U.S. shivered and wondered. Some of them were indeed using the word traitor on the likes of Oscar Servaczgo. In all the Eastern Seaboard there was not enough fuel to keep homes warm, fire factory furnaces, prosecute the war. In East-Central Pennsylvania's anthracite basin extending from Carbondale to Pottsville there was good hard coal aplenty-underground-but some 17,000 striking miners refused to dig it. Other thousands threatened to walk out. The press roared its disapproval or belatedly questioned...