Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towns in Britain are so contentedly Tory as Bournemouth on England's south coast -a palmy haunt of the retired rich, of Pekingese dogs and uniformed chauffeurs. But last week, with a general election possibly a few months off, the parliamentary constituency of Bournemouth East was making a spectacle of itself...
...result of Elgar's experimentation is a work stately in movement, glowingly rich in orchestral texture and full of haunting harmonies. As performed by the Philharmonic last week, it had moving moments of penitential despair mixed with moments of ecstatic fulfillment climaxed by the soaring "Choir of the Angelicals...
...beneath a 30-ft. ceiling. Opening to the north is a curving façade of grey-tinted glass which has become the main museum entrance. In such stark simplicity, the touches of elegance-Roman travertine on the entrance stairs and terrace, green Venetian terrazzo floors-take on a rich but restrained resonance...
...This week it marks its 100th birthday with a two-city celebration: a loan exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery of outstanding pictures drawn from its collection and its regular biennial roundup of contemporary U.S. paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate on the new American painters. Stabs and grabs...
...writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, produced on CBS' Playhouse 90, TV Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and overnight becomes rich, famous and an s.o.b. Where once he listened to music while he worked (he apparently owned only one phonograph record, Swan Lake), now the only music heard is the snarling of his ego. He berates his wife (rather justly, it seemed to some viewers) for disliking all those Hollywood parties...