Word: rave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wherever his plane touched down, Ave had a handshake for those nearest him in the sign-bearing ("We Rave for Ave") crowds mustered to meet him. He preached a single, hard theme: Dwight Eisenhower's Administration has betrayed the farmers, surrendered to big business, destroyed the U.S. position in the world...
...blackmarket $30 price, and the audience which will venture over to Fogg Art Museum probably will be far less famous. Yet 75 years is a long time. Boston has become less sedate, and the performance will be less pretentious, but the idea is certainly as ambitious. Whether the critics rave again remains to be seen. But few will think that Greek drama has died at Harvard after the show has closed.For the 1906 production of Agamemnon, the Harvard Stadium was filled with a rather unusual brand of warrior...
Back on top in star billing after 16 lost years of bottle-belting, plus nearly ten dry years spent climbing back to the heights, ex-Movie Musicomedienne and Autobiographer Lillian (I'll Cry Tomorrow) Roth, 45, was drawing dewy-eyed patrons and rave notices at Manhattan's prim Hotel Plaza. Between shows, where she belted out old songs she had made famous, e.g., When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along, vibrant Songstress Roth philosophized about her old problem. Hearing a report that Actress Diana Barrymore (TIME, Jan. 23) had spent only five weeks...
...delight in sartorial brevity (e.g., an ermine bathing-suit ensemble in Korea in 1953), was "trapped" in an unusually overexposed pose last June by a Turkish photographer in Istanbul. Wailed she then: "A terrible blow -and just when I've been studying Shakespeare four hours a day." Scandalmongering Rave magazine soon got around to handing Terry its "Lady Bum" award for her "hypocritical display of outraged modesty." Last week, feeling degraded and maligned. Terry entered the lists of Hollywood stars tilting with the sewer sheets (TIME, July 11), lanced Rave with a $2,000,000 libel suit...
...Wealthy Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly decided not to sue Rave for a story about his daughter, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, when he learned that its editor (then on the masthead as "Victor Huntington Rowland") "didn't have a dime." Said ex-Olympic Sculler Kelly: "If my son or I ever meet him, we'll take him on ... We'll settle it in our own way without a lawsuit...