Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes off to war, comes back and discovers that nobody loves a 30-year-old brat. He spends too much, drinks too much and wives too much. At the studios, they don't even know his name, except as a joke. He gets older, paunchier and balder, but though few seem to know it, he is still one of the best actors in the business. Then he finds himself in his first Broadway show. It opens, the critics turn handsprings, and that cheeky kid is once more swaggering down the block-Puck in middle...
...Though it is Mickey's first Broadway show, it is not his first time in burlesque His mother was a showgirl, his father was a vaudeville comic. Mickey, who was born Joe Yule Jr., was telling jokes onstage almost before he could talk. "The jokes are like old friends," he says. "My father was a burlesque comic, and now I am too. It's a complete circle. I am my father's son. I am my father." Neither mother nor father did very well in burlesque, however, and money problems led to divorce. Mickey's mother...
...destruction of Jewish cultural life in the Soviet Union and the arrest of leading Jewish intellectuals. A purge of the arts was under way that mortally threatened those writers and composers who had survived the Great Terror of the mid-'30s. In music the principal target was Shostakovich. Though laden with Stalin Prizes, he was now being termed the author of "un-Soviet, unwholesome, eccentric, tuneless" works. He knew what to do. In 1936 he had nearly lost his life after receiving a public "whipping" for an opera that had displeased Stalin. Following a Central Committee resolution condemning...
Shostakovich wrote the score for the superb Soviet film of Hamlet. It was one of his favorite plays, and there was a line of Hamlet's he particularly liked: "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon...
...Though he was born in Brooklyn, the city of Perelman's childhood and youth was Providence. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. At Brown University one of his best friends was Nathanael West, the future author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, and a future brother...