Word: rave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Royal Nightmare. Not much else has changed for Streisand since she became the Funny Girl. Success hasn't spoiled her. It hasn't even convinced her. She got rave reviews and an S.R.O. Funny Girl run in London, but she was nightmarishly maladroit when she met Princess Margaret. Arriving late at the receiving line, she apologized to Her Royal Highness: "I got screwed up." She still worries that her cult of followers will desert her. "Barbra," says her producer-actor husband, Elliott Gould, "is the kind of person who is hurt if her puppy walks past...
...judgment of only one student, and was so presented in Slate. Slate admitted that some students had praised Haller on several counts. In fact, Slate is at some pains to make it clear that student judgments are entirely personal, and that what one student deplores, another may rave about. As graduate students of Professor Haller's, we would like to redress the balance by stating that we find him a sound, helpful teacher, and a very decent human being who has earned our liking and respect...
...epigraph, the author quotes Dylan Thomas' splendid hymn to his dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...
...What do the artists who recorded What Am I Living For? Summertime Blues, and Rave On have in common...
...West Coast opening of Viva Maria! and Sex Symbol Sophia Loren had Manhattan all to herself. Well, not all. Such other delightful images as Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin paraded into Broadway's Capitol theater for the premiere of Doctor Zhivago, but the crowd saved the rave for Sophia, who didn't even play in the picture. She just tagged along in white mink cape and Dior gown with Producer Carlo Ponti, her once and future husband. In all the crush, Sophia and Carlo were beaming because of some moral support they'd got from the French...