Word: turner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLES A. TURNER La Quinta, Calif...
Constable always lived under the artistic shadow of J.M.W. Turner, who was almost exactly his own age but far more successful in contemporary eyes. In retrospect, it seems as if the dashing Turner should have been the neglected revolutionary and Constable the acclaimed conservative. But Turner, however radical his techniques, still painted the grand subjects and the dramatic scenes congenial to the Romantic taste; by contrast, Constable's themes seemed merely homely. Turner was a poet of the imagination, Constable a poet of the real. Turner saw a vision of hell in a snow storm; Constable could...
...TIME you have been out in Hollywood for one week, you can expect to have heard that everything which was supposed to have happened to Lana Turner in Schwaab's Drugstore a long time ago was actually a big fake. Hollywood is full of cynics who will probably persist in tearing down this legend for years. These same people will say the picture business is closed up as tight as it ever was. They are sure the studio had Miss Turner under contract before they put her in a sweater and on a soda-fountain stool with a straw...
...from Michigan and a registered nurse too, but Miss January of 1968 (a couple of years ago, even on the coasts, you wouldn't have been able to make the fit). Her discoveries (there were two), occurred in ways that are about as close to the Legend of Lana Turner as you can get. First, on the side lines of a football field, Mr. Anson Mount, the Public Affairs Manager for playboy magazine, saw enough one afternoon to ask the nursing student if she were interested. Then, probably a year later, in the offices above the Playboy Club in London...
Styron is no bigot. His bete noire is irrational criticism. He has reexamined Nat Turner and found it perfectly defensible; he finds it hard to see how anyone else who examines the historical evidence can find it otherwise...