Word: tastee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE LITTLE FOXES. Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama is in that old-fashioned form, a play with a plot. Mike Nichols draws driving performances from Anne Bancroft, E.G Marshall and George C. Scott as members of a predatory Southern family with taste for pillage.
Last week it was finally time to pay the piper. Up for auction at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries went 151 items of Guest's choicest Chinese and Meissen porcelain and signed French 18th century furniture. In three hours of furious bidding, collectors, in what was a resounding...
It may have shocked audiences, but it brought them to the box office in record numbers. Bonnie and Clyde also stirred up a battle among movie critics that seemed to be almost as violent as the film itself. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was so offended by it...
A striking painting of Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, caused several controversies during the '20's and 30's. Many people questioned the taste of displaying a Russian revolutionary hero's portrait in a Harvard House.
Numerous contemporary writers obviously produce poshlost or are, for other reasons, Nabokov's black pets. "Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are complete nonentities insofar as my taste in reading is concerned. Brecht, Faulkner, Camus...