Word: showman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow and the added indictments that might yet be brought. Said Kunstler, whose defense of Indian Activist Russell Means last year and the Chicago Seven in 1970 drew greater attention: "The case is too old. Attica is a painful subject, and most people want to stay away." Yet Showman Kunstler could not resist the temptation to flay witnesses and have a go at State Supreme Court Justice Gilbert H. King, who presided firmly. "I'm fed up with your telling me I have no conscience," said King, rejecting one ill-timed Kunstler motion for dismissal. "I have as much...
...large and prominent, as if to accommodate more music. When he plays in a short-sleeved shirt, the muscles of his forearms seem to move in rhythm. His face is marked in performance by both intense concentration and the graces and passions of the melody. He is always a showman who does everything with panache-watch him put on one of his rakish fedoras, brim snapped up and cunningly creased down wide in front, the whole hat and the movement of his hand over his head a study in easy, unashamed flamboyance...
Catering Advisory. Though he used to come across as more showman than chef, Graham Kerr has a lifelong journeyman's background in the delectation of diners. Son of a London hotelkeeper, he started helping in the kitchen at six, studied hotel management in England, ran a 15th century coaching inn with his actress-wife Treena (now his producer), then moved Down Under, where he served as chief catering adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He later began extolling eating on radio and TV, first in Australia and then in Canada. He now teaches at Cornell University...
...BACH Society Orchestra is nothing like the old one, as last Saturday's concert readily proved. We've seen, at least for this year, the last of the showman's concerts, replete with publicity gimmicks and histrionic conducting, and the first of the music-lover's concerts, which stand firmly on its own musical integrity. It's easy to prophesy that this year the Bach Society will deliver some of its finest concerts ever...
Back in Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y., more than three decades ago, a nine-year-old showman named Stefan Kanfer amazed his friends by producing coins and cards out of thin air. "It was the old up-the-sleeve trick," recalls Kanfer, now anchor man of TIME'S Essay section, "and the coins would generally clatter to the floor, to my embarrassment. As a magician, I had ten things working against me-my fingers." So the young Kanfer went to New York University and ended up writing advertising copy, gag lines for Victor Borge, short fiction, TV programs...