Word: oscars
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Existence today often means escaping from the latest Oscar award acceptance speech only to be trapped within earshot of a disc jockey who considers it a felony to fall silent for a second. Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will...
There were two James McNeill Whistlers. One was the artist of the putdown. Oscar Wilde: "I wish I'd said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar, you will." The other was the artist of subtle landscapes and unprecedented arrangements of color and light. The wit was amply recorded in his autobiography The Gentle Art of Making Enemies...
...candidates themselves declared it would be vital-and the pollsters, and the journalists. No wonder Americans began to believe the reviews of how they were expected to respond. To hear some tell it, they were planning to pull up around the television set as if it were Oscar night in Hollywood and measure teeth, hair, voices, eyes and shapes, thus resolving months of indecision by observing 90 minutes of two-dimensional posturing...
Leaning forward confidently in a darkened hotel bar, the detective adds that the case has held a long and strange fascination for him. Clues began to appear when he was a young man. First, he noticed that a high-school girl friend had an Oscar on her mantelpiece, although her father worked as a parking at tendant. Then, during his college years, he was a bell-hop at a summer resort, where a middle-aged man in poor health taught him to play chess. The man could play several games at once. blindfolded--which seemed the only extraordinary thing about...
DIVORCED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, Oscar winner last seen on-screen as the abandoned husband who seeks to gain custody of his child in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer; and sometime Ballerina-Actress Anne Byrne, 36, after eleven years of marriage, one child; in New York City. Lately Hoffman has been squiring Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer...