Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slice of Manhattan night life known as the Village Vanguard was getting started two decades ago. it had a performer named Judith Tuvim, who later blossomed into Judy Holliday, and the occasional services of a skinny young accompanist, fresh out of Harvard, named Leonard Bernstein. Since then more green talent has ripened in the Vanguard's cellar than in any other place in town-Folk Singers Burl Ives and Richard Dyer-Bennet. Comics Wally Cox and Roger Price, Singers Eartha Kitt and Pearl Bailey. It was the Vanguard that sent Harry Belafonte, a run-of-the-scale crooner...
...says Hoak, belongs to one man: Redleg Manager Birdie Tebbetts. Like everyone else who has seen Don play since he left the sandlots of Roulette, Pa., Birdie recognizes the signs of greatness. But unlike Don's earlier managers, Birdie knows how to help his man use all his talent all the time. "The big thing about Birdie," says Third Baseman Hoak, "is that he won't let his ballplayers build up pressure. Besides changing my stance at the plate, he cut down my swing and has me moving around more in the batter's box. With Birdie...
Among those least likely to appear at all is Comedian Caesar. ABC wants to talk to him but is not optimistic about being able to put him to work. Says a CBS executive: "Personally, I think he's a very big talent. But audience for satire just isn't big enough to pay off. He's the living proof of George S. Kaufman's famous line that 'satire is what closes on Saturday night...
...restive talent of the young Picasso, tramping about Paris with a Browning automatic flamboyantly tucked in his belt, was quickly evident as he began to paint gaunt laundresses, half-starved nudes and such El Greco-haunted scenes as Blind Man's Meal. Their signature was the all-pervading blue monotone, a color which Picasso has since explained "was not a question of light or color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that." The clowns and buffoons of the Rose period that followed still astonish by their sure draftsmanship and haunting melancholy...
...with which Picasso investigated one direction after another. He briefly turned back to classicism ("They say I draw better than Raphael, and probably they are right," he once remarked), then in what amounted to a burlesque of classicism created such monumental figures as Mother and Child, which only superb talent saves from becoming ludicrous. In his Three Dancers he not only bade farewell to his period of stage designing with the Ballet Russe (where he met and married his one legal wife, Olga Koklova, mother of his eldest son Paul), but initiated a series of agonizing, lopsided, contorted figures whose...