Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barbara Harris as Daisy Gamble should become the sensation of the year on the New York stage. Miss Harris surpasses all the requirements of a musical comedy star and beyond that she can act. Her role requires her to shift continually from the aristocratic Melinda to Daisy, the goil from...
Night. Rain. Pavement squeegeed dry by tires of car ahead. NEW ENGLAND KEEP LEFT, chk-chk-chk from cars in opposite lanes, their headlights spaced out evenly by expert tailgating. Radio: "Hurricane Betsy is acting up again." Sensation of pleasant tension, smooth-pumping pistons, wiper-rhythm. WARNING SPEED CHECKED BY...
Invariably, another kind of nostalgia rears up whenever new freeways are about to be carved into the countryside-the sensation that Nature is being suffocated beneath spans of concrete. "In many parts of the country the building of a highway has about the same results upon vegetation and human structures...
"By role," wrote Rand, "a foreign correspondent is a commentator or analyst, not a crusader." What he needs is judgment, and historical perspective−attributes that are all too often lacking, fn China, Rand recalls, even the ablest of the reporters seemed to spend just about all his time exposing...
The conversation piece of 1965-66 will almost certainly be last season's London sensation−The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. The author is a German named Peter Weiss, just...