Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHOWCASE '68 (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A summer-long professional-talent search gets under way tonight in San Francisco. Young performers selected from eight other regions will appear in subsequent weeks, and a final grand winner will be named at series' end in September. Lloyd Thaxton hosts. Premi...
History has tended to side with Byron. Nonetheless, buried beneath West's studied claptrap lurks considerable native talent. This gift shines forth in an exhibit of 36 rarely seen drawings, many of them owned until recently by descendants of the painter in England, now at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery. Since the drawings are mostly landscapes or sketches for larger compositions, the gallery placed them, wherever possible, next to a photocopy of the finished work. The demonstration is plain: as West's ideas progressed from initial draft to finished sketch to final oil, faces froze, bodies puffed...
...magazine sensibly titled Magazine (1933-35) printed Critics Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell in an introduction to the series, "are almost as interesting as those that survived. They are the underpinnings of the house...
Crooks described ISSP as "something of a student talent hunt. We recruit the best intellectual power we can find and place them in a community where faculty members relate to them as potential PhD candidates...
...writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different stations. " Just by looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which penetrates the fibres of the bamboo, causing it, the hut, to strangle...