Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silent film thrived on that catharsis. So did vaudeville, and that Broadway combustion engine of explosive anarchy known as Hellzapoppin. Britain's Monty Python troupe, which opened live at Manhattan's City Center last week, renews that comic tradition, and its success in television, movies and now, onstage, shows that many audiences are parched for it. If there is anything novel about the Pythonites (six men, with extras for this production), it is only that they are practicing comic karate, English-style, and Americans always find it strangely exotic to think of the British as vulgar, irreverent, silly...
Despite her outstanding doubles success, Sally prefers singles competition. "I'm an individualist by nature, and tennis is the individual sport," Sally said in a recent interview. "I feel like it's me against the world out on the court, and there's no one to turn to but myself. I have to dig deep down into myself to keep fighting back if I'm behind. It definitely makes me a stronger person overall...
...David Horowitz make about their huge new history of the Rockefeller family is that while "the Rockefellers had suffered from being treated either as saints or demons," they "would be part of neither camp." They're right about that --although the family has discreetly attacked the book--and their success at presenting a view of the Rockefellers that is not only objective but deep and understanding as well is genuinely impressive...
...secret of their success seems to derive from their being around at a point in the history of the family when it was possible to do the kind of study they had in mind. Their conduits to the Rockefeller family secrets were members of the alienated fourth generation of the dynasty, the great-grandchildren of the first John D. Rockefeller, the first members of the family who were not accustomed to being completely in control of the people around them. These Rockefeller Cousins apparently gave Collier and Horowitz access to parts of the vast family archives without trying, as their...
Presenting the Rockefellers as a family in decline is sometimes a difficult task--it works only using their own wildly glorified terms of what constitutes human success and failure. Collier and Horowitz consequently spend a great deal of time building up the awesome status of the family in order to be able to bill it later as a flop. The status, of course, has always been there, and is easy to portray; this is without question the richest and most powerful family America has ever seen, and the reach of its money and influence is staggering. The failures, however...