Word: rave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much pre-Broadway momentum (a then unprecedented advance sale of about $2,000,000) that it crashed through a barricade of unenthusiastic reviews, and will probably run for another two years. Camelot, with more than $3,000,000 worth of tickets already sold, may find reviews ranging from rave to grave, but in any event, the show will...
Last week, with the release of The Apartment, which opened in Manhattan to rave reviews ("trenchant" . . . "sardonic" . . . "tumbling with wit" . . . "the most sophisticated movie I have ever seen"), Moviemaker Wilder obviously had another big hit on his hands. He also raised some intriguing questions in the minds of his audience about what, if anything, he is trying...
...combat airman, and he conferred on himself the navy title of comandante. He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose of belligerents, complaining only "of the stench of peace." Rant & Rave. The peace left Italy with little to show for its half million dead. Beginning with nothing but bluff, strut and 287 men. D'Annunzio made his famed "march" (by -truck much of the way) on Fiume. which Woodrow Wilson thought should belong to one of his creations-Yugoslavia. Eventually...
...been D'Annunzio's rant and rave that prepared the way for Mussolini. But after he took power in 1922. the warrior poet lived out his life as the chief object of interest in a museum full of works of art. historic relics and junk. He died in 1938. not long before World War II brought Italy "the fountains of blood and tears" the poet had promised, and history made its final savage exegesis of his life-work-the butchered bodies of Mussolini and his mistress strung up by the heels...