Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Press and in a sense the American Girodias, is way ahead of him. Says Rosset hopefully: "Who knows if the limits have been reached? Just because the scientists split the atom, did they sit back and say, 'Well, that's it'?" The pioneering publisher could always push the limits a little farther by trying the notorious Story of O. or The Debauched Hospodar. But one of these days even Rosset may run out of material...
Still, all is not happy with the Royal Ballet. With all the brouhaha for Nureyev, some dancers feel ignored. Says one star dancer: "If Rudi doesn't push off eventually, I've got half a mind to take my candle out from under this bushel...
Donovan succeeds Calvin Gross, who two years ago was lured to New York from Pittsburgh after earning a reputation for creative educational innovation there. But in New York, Gross never learned the knobs and levers of the system, and thus proved unable to formulate or push ideas fast enough to satisfy the board. Now on three-month terminal leave, he still turns up daily at his office to mull over personal matters and help his lawyers fight for a hefty severance settlement...
M.F.L. as M.L.F. "When your name is read," nominees had been instructed before show time, "please recover from the ecstatic shock as quickly as you can and push your way immediately through the crowd of all your sudden friends." And everyone tried. Lila Kedrova, 45, a surprising winner as best supporting actress for her near-flawless portrayal of a desperate and dying courtesan in Zorba the Greek, started forward and then stumbled into a Zorba-like bear hug from Star Anthony Quinn. "Has it really happened?" she gasped. "It has," he assured...
...Upper Bohemians. But shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even in fragments...