Word: stanley
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...made history, all right, but not of the Stanley-vs-Livingstone variety. More like King Kong rattling his chains before the tuxedoed first-nighters. Singer and audience eyed each other across a gaping cultural divide. Figuring Elvis out was part of the pop-cultural challenge or threat he posed. Elvis' own challenge was figuring out how to work the audience. He knew his approach worked on tour, in the South. But New York was alien to him, as he at first was alien...
...cultural sea change; and their animosity was a necessary impediment for the invader to overcome. Exactly the same abrasion is evident in the 1951 film of "A Streetcar Named Desire," in the moment when Vivien Leigh's fluttery Blanche duBois is first confronted with Brando's brutish Stanley Kowalski. It is the instant, epochal collision of old and new, of refinement and feral energy, of a sensibility on the way out and an attitude crashing through, ready to take over...
...show will continue every Saturday, with Joiner broadcasting alone between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., treating listeners to the likes of Patty Loveless, Iris DeMent, Ralph Stanley, Jim & Jesse and D.L. Menard...
...assignment took him into the heart of central Africa, where he tracked down some of the surviving porters of the famed nineteenth-century explorer Henry Stanley, who had himself tracked down Dr. David Livingstone...
...passion. When he felt negotiations with the 12 banks had dragged on too long, he decided to play tough. He instructed the top lawyers of five of the major banks to come to his office. When they arrived, he lit into them. (One CEO was also present, Morgan Stanley's Philip Purcell.) "Spitzer was harsh, irate, yelling at times," one of the lawyers told TIME. Spitzer said he was fed up with their haggling, that they should be ashamed of what they had done to investors, that they were acting "like children in a sand box." He told them...