Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk about standards. Perhaps I used the wrong word before. How can you talk about Kiss Me, Kate and apply standards? Look, you have a simple story about a director, Fred Graham, and his ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi who are putting on a performance of The Taming of the Shrew. You see their backstage shenanigans as well as their performances in the play. We threw in a couple of gangsters because they're always funny. But that's not a quality story by any means. With my music and some dancing, however, it works very well on stage...
...campaign is over. Kevin White has won." Timilty said as his tearful wife Elaine stood by his side...
...Webern came of age amidst the last flowering of Viennese culture. He knew the writer Karl Kraus; he was painted by Oskar Kokoschka and treated by Psychiatrist Alfred Adler. Yet by choice and necessity, he remained a soul apart. He lived a frugal, ascetic life with his wife and four chil dren, eking out his income by teaching, by doing hack jobs for his music pub lisher and by conducting. He had a mea sure of success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from his players, especially...
...left behind a residue of chaos, with a former wife challenging his will and a son challenging his brothers even about the disposal of Alex's ashes...
...morning at Oxford, Al Cortone, a discharged G.I., catches up with Dickstein, who as a wartime tommy had saved his life in Sicily. The Soviet, the Palestinian, the Jew and the Yank meet over sherry at the house of Stephen Ashford, professor of Semitic literature, and his ravishing Lebanese wife. The Ashfords' small daughter Suza is there too. Over the amontillado, conversations come and go, foreshadowing characters' destinies...