Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steven Lipper '64 has won the Elizabeth Wilder Prize for the highest examination mark in elementary German in the middle of the freshman year...
UNIVERSITY: The Academy Award winner of 1960, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT is a half-funny, half-frightening probe into the mores of mid-century Big Business. The thousand faces of Jack Lemmon are uniformly hilarious; but Fred MacMurray, a boss-type figure and also a happy adulterer, is just an ugly slob. Shirley MacLaine, the apex of the triangle, is unusually wistful; at one point, she is made to attempt suicide. Whatever else it may be The Apartment is most definitely not the most amusing film since Some Like It Hot. Daily...
...This is a success story," wrote Editor Reyner Banham of the British Architectural Review, "that will need Todd-AO, Dynamation, Warnercolor, Billy Wilder and a cast of millions to film, but there is one thing very odd about it. He has not gone on doing the same thing until the public has caught up. He has gone right on developing, never backtracking, rarely standing still, and quite suddenly he has met the public taste coming round the other...
...difficult evening, but some time during the long, long night Hollywood passed its crisis. Within hours everyone was cocky. Director Billy Wilder, who won the Best Picture, Best Original Writing (with I.A.L. Diamond) and Best Directing awards for The Apartment wired wickedly to Nominee Shirley MacLaine, with Liz Taylor's tracheotomy in "You may not have a hole in your windpipe, but we love you anyway " And Actress Taylor, noticeably less shaky at a post-Oscar party than she had been earlier, thoughtfully assessed Butterfield 8: "I still think it's a piece of obscenity...
...paintings were the work of tall, gaunt James Strombotne, 26, one of the most promising of the young figurative artists now working around Los Angeles. Such Hollywood-type collectors as Otto Preminger, Andre Previn and Billy Wilder own canvases by him, and so does Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Strombotne is featured in Art in America's annual "New Talent, U.S.A.," and the Pasadena Art Museum is planning the most precocious honor of all-a full-fledged retrospective next fall...