Word: popularizer
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...remove that gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands." It was as if Al Gore was Messala, or the Ape King, or the Omega man's marauders, or a band of Comanches who needed a comeuppance of defiant rhetoric plus massive weaponry. The declaration assured that popular history would now remember Heston not just as a movie axiom but as the Holy Gun Fighter...
...Melina Mercouri. They made nine films together, including his biggest success, Never on Sunday. That romantic comedy, with the director playing a naive American grecophile and Mercouri as the Athens whore who liberates him, landed Dassin two Oscar nominations, for director and screenplay. In 1964, Topkapi also proved quite popular. But that was his last hit, 44 years...
...inconceivable that such movies could be made today - in part because popular culture has changed no less than political fashions. But mainly because there's no one remotely like Charlton Heston to give them stature, fire and guts...
...Unlike the NBA and the NFL, with their seamless integration into popular entertainment, their close affinities with the vapid celebrity culture of glossy magazines and MTV, and their nationwide audiences, professional baseball has generally remained a local affair. Teams count their most loyal devotees almost entirely within the regional base, and only seldom are regular-season games broadcast to a wider audience. Americans may, in theory, value mobility: but when it comes to baseball, carpetbagging fans, for good reason, are often shunned and scorned...
...Stanton says that undergraduate interest in the art collections has increased in recent years, in large part due to the efforts of the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM), a group dedicated to increasing undergraduate interaction with the museums. OUR HUAM has become popular for their “Night at” events, which have drawn up to 400 people and involved many students intimately with the museums. Because of the upcoming closures, OUR HUAM hosted a final “Night at the Fogg” yesterday at 32 Quincy...