Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the new Hamlet of Franco Zeffirelli. Last year, in a choreography of flashing swords held like switchblades, the 28-year-old Italian director caused a transatlantic sensation by staging the Old Vic's final Romeo and Juliet as if it were an adaptation of West Side Story...
Williams held Harvard's high-scoring front line of Bob Inman, Barry Williams, and Merie McClung to 35 points, but two sharp-shooting guards took up the slack. Sophomore sensation Keith Sedlacek pumped in 14 points with his patented long jumper, and Leo Scully contributed 12.
Hats add something to a woman's appearance-so they say. And Joan Crawford, 55, thinks they add a lot. She has been known to order 30 of them at a crack, and all custom-made. Photographers could hardly be blamed for zeroing in on the frizzy crown and...
Died. Amelita Galli-Curci, 81, Italian-born coloratura soprano, one of the last survivors of the "golden age" of opera singers, a tiny Milanese with a flutelike voice who was a sensation at her 1908 debut in Rigoletto at Trani (a provincial Italian town where she was paid $60 a...
But until well past the middle of the book, the party is dreadfully sober, bull in the kitchen and all. The funny people stand around with glasses in their hands, and the funny events occur, but the reader never feels the giddiness that good farce and a certain kind of...