Word: showman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some folks say his worst accident was in 1943 when a taxi knocked him down and broke his leg. Others insist that it was the day in 1962 when he was made manager of the New York Mets. Now, baseball's noblest showman Casey Stengel, 74, has a fractured right wrist. It cracked when he fell on a concrete ramp just before his Mets played an exhibition game against the cadets at West Point. While the Mets were winning, 8-0, surgeons cased Case in plaster and a green sling. Then he returned home, waved his still-solid southpaw...
Doors from Cairo. The museum has four parts. Already 50,000 visitors have tunneled through the white-domed Shrine of the Book (TIME, April 30). Near by are five acres of contoured gardens, designed by Isamu Noguchi, containing sculptures given by Showman Billy Rose. Called the Billy Rose Art Garden (the word for sculpture-pesel-means a forbidden graven image), its terraces bank abstract works from Henry Moore to Tinguely, representational sculptures from Maillol to Rodin. The nudes not the abstractions forced two of Israel's chief rabbis to snub the inauguration...
...Hahn is public enemy No. 1. The flat rate for transporting a golf bag in the U.S. is $4, and his weighs 80 Ibs. One club has a rubber hose for a shaft; another is hinged in four places, still another has a shaft 12 ft. long. A canny showman, Hahn modifies his routine periodically to keep it fresh. He no longer, for instance, performs his William Tell Shot-driving the ball off a tee clutched in the teeth of a pretty girl...
Neither a sentimental showman nor a tightwad, he has shown that Hollywood can still make competent movies that are bids for quality within their own form and stay in the black, and that, as he puts it, "if you are going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest plant and facilities." But the heavy financial investments needed to create such an entity would be for nought without a special flair for sensing what is acceptable to the public-for that, ultimately, accounts for success in the entertainment world. This Lew Wasser man has to a unique degree...
Both elements are inferentially Fellini, and Fellini labors hugely to reconcile the contradiction. In II Bidone he fails: the showman dissolves into the infant, the infant becomes a sort of devil in diapers. But the failure is not final. In 8½ the opposites attain a higher synthesis: in the infant the showman finds spiritual rebirth, in the showman the infant finds creative release...