Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that supposedly once belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain; in fact, they had been gathered by agents from New York hock shops. He built what was possibly the country's grandest opera house and imported for Denver's delectation almost every current luminary, from Sarah Bernhardt to Oscar Wilde (who bombed...
...credit even on job resumes for her role as Linda's body in the movie's major dramatic moments. In the face of Warner's denial, she insists: "I shot several exorcism scenes and played nearly all the vomit scenes." Added Eileen: "If Linda wins an Oscar, I'll be the first to cheer...
Golenpaul helped sift the questions from listeners who for more than a decade tried to stump such quick wits as Critic Clifton Fadiman, Pianist Oscar Levant and Sportswriter John Kieran...
...unisex jumpsuits. Instead, the emphasis is once again on the most basic of feminine garments: the dress. Liberated from the crisp, form-fitted lines of recent seasons, it now billows, ripples and flows. "I don't care if the biggest-selling thing in stores is pants," said Designer Oscar de la Renta, whose own new collection opened last week in New York. "The dress...
...number of good reasons for Whistler's waspishness are suggested in this sturdy biography by Professor Stanley Weintraub, who has also written books about Oscar Wilde and G.B. Shaw. Whistler was sensitive about his size, uncertain about his talents and resentful toward an art establishment that refused to recognize him. Though he liked to see himself as a descendant of American Southern gentlemen, Whistler was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1834, the son of a West Point-trained engineering officer and a mother who, despite her North Carolina heritage, was a prototypical God-fearing Yankee...