Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divers & Sidewinders. Worked out with the intricacy of calculus, billings follow some general patterns and are described with bewildering terminology. The best possible position is "sole star billing" or "100% alone above.'' This describes a name so momentous that it appears alone above the title of the production in characters 100% as large as the title itself. The next trench is "star billing''-above the title, with other names underneath, and so on down to all the tricky below-decks devices, such as names in boxes (a favorite for musical directors and choreographers). Then there...
...hankering for freedom. The opposition National Civic Union, a moderate group, demanded that Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria themselves abandon power. At first the two Trujillo holdovers refused. It remained for two unlikely go-betweens to bring about a settlement-Luis Amiama Tió and Antonio Imbert Barreras. sole survivors of the Trujillo assassination plot. Invoking their present popularity as tyrannicides, Amiama Tió and Imbert quietly sold Rodriguez Echavarria and Balaguer on a compromise. Warily, the National Civic Union accepted...
Last week Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries had on display the first one-man Münter show in the U.S.-44 paintings whose colors glow in bright chunks and whose landscapes shimmer under blazing skies. Gabriele is the sole surviving member of Germany's Blue Rider group, which included not only Kandinsky but Franz Marc and Paul Klee.* In spite of her bright palette, there is no gaiety in her canvases; they are intense, charged with emotion, and all a trifle sad-like the artist herself...
Katanga must be effectively integrated into a Congo Union because the sole alternative is chaos. Order in the Congo is still--as it was on the day its independence was proclaimed, a year and a half ago--dependent on the existence of a strong central government. And that government must be able to claim the loyalty and respect of the hostile tribes and language groups in its population...
When "Rick" Bay died in 1955, his widow found herself the sole owner of 73% of the stock and all of the capital ($28 million) of the venerable Wall Street firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. She promptly incorporated it and became the firm's president and board chairman, the only woman ever to head a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. "I like a man's world," she explained. "Wall Street isn't frightening." In addition to Kidder, she was board chairman of American Export Lines for two years (until she sold...