Word: reale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While such scenes are obviously pleasing to Johnson, his friends see his real mission as creating a bloc of votes that can influence, if not determine, the Democrats' choice of a candidate. Johnson and his sagacious Texas sidekick, Speaker Sam Rayburn, expect to hold more than 300 delegate votes (mostly Southern) at the convention's all-important first ballot, hope that this will be enough to head off any bolt to Adlai Stevenson. And if, in the course of this power play, Johnson should finesse the nomination for himself, that would be fine. At a press conference...
...plot read like the scenario of an old Sydney Greenstreet movie, but the main character was all too real. Rugged, soft-voiced Ted Lewin, 52, is an American ex-prizefighter with a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of Manila, in the past two decades, he has turned many a fast peso...
...TIME, Nov. 23) with four other leading Soviet musicians, spoke out on his impressions of popular capitalist music. Most jazz musicians, including Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, he adjudged "vulgar, unnatural and in anything but good taste." But he had a kind word for Clarinet Virtuoso Benny Goodman: kho-lodny (real cool...
...Alley, Koerner says, "makes woman the real heroine of existence; man only pulls the ropes. But here we have the wrong scenery for the right occasion, for the great human experience of love and fruition...
...sultriness with astonishing ease and conviction. Says her sometime acting coach, Herbert Berghof: "She is like a little daughter of Anna Magnani." In Miracle Worker, she is completely in charge of an extraordinarily demanding role, a role that requires of the actress what it required of Annie Sullivan in real life: the sensitivity of a poet and the strength of a piano mover. It is a role that is doubly difficult because it demands a violation of one of the prime commandments of theatrical experience: never get on stage for too long with a child. But just as the triumph...