Word: succ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genius-impostor Salvador Dali, with whom he shared two main interests, cinema and surrealism. Later, they made two pioneer films: The Andalusian Dog, notable for its explicit Freudian imagery and resolute non-meaning, and The Age of Gold, which contained frenzied images of a homicidal Christ figure. That succès de scandale severed the collaborators forever. "The film was a caricature of my ideas," complained Dali. "Catholicism was attacked in an obvious way, and quite without poetry...
...sign of lack of confidence to survive." Instead, he adopted a hermit's quiet and began turning out a blizzard of atonal music. The Symphony No. 1, composed in 1953, was not played publicly in England until last February, but it has already made Gerhard a major English succès d'estime...
...Liaisons Dangerouses (Astor) is an offense against taste, a baldly commercial celebration of the Gallic religion of disgust. At the same time it is a wickedly funny comedy of promiscuities à la franqaise. The mixture seems sure to produce a succès de scandale...
...writer who thirsted for succè d'estime, it was a painful descent, and Norman Mailer was painfully aware of it ("Self-pity is one of my vices"). Soon telltale signs of instability began to appear. He quarreled with his editors, darkly accused the typesetters of deliberately mutilating his words. His second marriage, to Adele Morales, a lush Peruvian-Spanish painter and actress, fluctuated from serenity in the morning to raging public brawls at night. Usually an affable man, Mailer became morose and belligerent. In Provincetown last summer he was jailed after a fight with police that began when...