Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their great box office appeal. But for the journeyman Negro actor-and even for such established Negro stars as Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Diahann Carroll-there is a disconcerting scarcity of parts. "It's very discouraging," says Miss Dandridge. "Sometimes they'll hire actresses and shade them with makeup until they're down to the color I am to play a role I could play as well." Negroes of undeniable talent are welcome in opera-no one thinks it odd to find Leontyne Price singing Tosca, despite the white singer in the romantic lead opposite...
...Graham earned national fame for the sincerity of his gripping, Bible-centered oratory, and Tulsa's Oral Roberts for his emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics. Age 37, he stands a shade under six feet, but weighs almost 275 Ibs., in rolls of fat that start at his jowls and balloon into an elephant-sized waistline. Except when he is drumming up donations, Billy James Hargis is deadly serious onstage-but he nonetheless lays the serious cause of anti-Communism open...
Retail sales-up 2% in July to $19.5 billion-look good, though they are down a shade from April's record $19.6 billion. The Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumer buying intentions concludes that spending by the public is beginning to level off. Says University of Michigan Economist George Katona: "The consumer's mood is sober because of three persistent concerns: the recurrence of recession, the relatively high unemployment, and the cold...
...Haydn, Robert Koff's violin and Madeline Foley's cello were both excellent. A shade less successful was Martin Boykan's effort on the piano, which seemed at times to drown out the rest of the trio. Keeping the top of the instrument closed was a step in the right direction, but it tended to make the tone a bit on the muddy side...
...born with a soul for the picturesque," confesses the middle-aged hero of A Passionate Pilgrim. "I found a world all hard lines and harsh lights, without shade, without composition, without the lovely mystery of color. I went about with my brush touching up and toning down. A very pretty chiaroscuro you'll find in my track!" A failure in America, he goes to England, where the charm of the rain-wet countryside convinces him that life must be gentler there. He visits an aristocratic relative, dreams of living on his sumptuous estate and marrying his sister. But though...