Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel-unless someone in charge heeds the sort of threat that came in last week: "We will not for give the destroyers of our people. Don't put us to a test...
...Director George Stevens; the defendant, the National Broadcasting Co. The charge: "Rape of a creative effort." That's what Stevens had called it, anyhow. The "effort" was his memorable 1951 six-Oscar picture, A Place in the Sun. NBC bought the TV rights to the film from Paramount for $300,000, put it on nationwide TV last March, and Stevens protested that it was mutilated by the insertion of no fewer than 42 commercials...
Hollywood has known this for years. There George Masters, 27, who transformed Lynda Bird Johnson for April's Oscar ceremonies, currently works over the likes of Doris Day and Rita Hayworth at $100 a sitting. Former MGM and Paramount Makeup Director Eddie Senz, 57, long ago brought his talents to Manhattan, where he caters to Broadway actors and members of the Great Society (Lady Bird attended the Inauguration with makeup by Senz). But it took an Italian who paints crazy eyes for the art to really catch...
...backing Ky, the U.S. in effect was opposing Tri Quang, whose influence in I Corps is paramount. Tri Quang openly accused the U.S. of supplying guns and tanks to Ky to destroy the Buddhists, and last week his mobs responded by burning the USIS library in Hue to the ground. Police and firemen calmly stood by watching. Later, rebel troops were dispatched to guard U.S. installations in Hué-a move hardly calculated to inspire American confidence. At week's end nearly all U.S. civilians were evacuated...
...morally" wrong or because he thinks the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of "imperialism." His argument is less expansive: the war is poisoning U.S.-Russian relations. As long as it continues, the Soviets will find it politically impossible to negotiate seriously with the U.S. on two issues of paramount importance: nuclear disarmament and the strengthening of the UN's peace-keeping machinery. Lord Harlech does not make the simple claim that Europe is more "important" than the Far East. Rather he implies that progress toward a world-wide East-West detente is more important than the rather confused issues...