Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the French press, radio and cinema tumbling over themselves to lionize Thierry, his show has become a sellout. All 52 paintings up for sale went for prices ranging from $100 to $150. In hailing his success, the weekly Arts topped the critical raves with a bit of sound advice: "Most of the canvases are beautiful. But why not leave the boy alone and let him develop his gifts instead of inflicting on him the ordeal of an exhibition...
...Socialists, the National Assembly took up the cry that the government plans to abandon what remains of French interests in Indo-China. Frenchmen, though they had almost unanimously supported him when he made the deal at Geneva, now show signs of reviling Mendès for his Indo-China "sellout," and for the fact that 21,000 French war prisoners are still in Communist hands...
After his ordination in 1944, his superiors allowed Father MacEwan to continue his musical career part-time. He traveled as far as New Zealand and Australia, singing to sellout houses. But before starting his first U.S. tour last month, he lost 18 lbs. just worrying about the hard-boiled audiences he expected to meet. During his 28-day tour, he sang twelve recitals and made four TV appearances. From Shreveport, La. to Fall River, Mass., with stops in Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh, Father MacEwan found only enthusiastic audiences. Wrote Chicago Critic Claudia Cassidy: "You would have gone quite a distance...
...Vishinsky had vowed to veto exactly such a solution, which replaced the peace-treaty provision for U.N.-directed internationalization. The abrupt about-face caught Italy's Reds flatfooted. On the day Vishinsky blessed the Trieste arrangement, Red Deputies in Italy's Chamber called it an "Atlantic sellout...
...citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...