Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years old at latitude 80° N., longitude 158°W., the University of Wisconsin's David Clark confidently predicted that no pack ice will chill Key Biscayne very soon. It was one of the few pieces of unequivocally good news heard lately, and it recalled Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, which described man's survival amid a new Ice Age and other trials...
Today, facing furies unimagined and unimaginable in Wilder's heyday, most people cannot share Wilder's optimism. In the 1960s the U.S. has admittedly been spared depressions, cataclysm, poxes, civil war and nuclear devastation-not to mention prevalent permafrost. Alas, few other prophets can speak with the certitude of geologists promising an unfrozen future-as this or any week's news suggests. The Administration claims that Moscow may soon have the capability to devastate the U.S. with a formidable new battery of nuclear missiles. Yet any attempt to counter the Soviet threat (if it is real) would...
Promises, Promises--Burt Bacharach and Hal David write some of the best and most innovative songs around, but perhaps you might prefer to buy the original cast album rather than go to this somewhat unsatisfactory distillation by Neil Simon of Billy Wilder-I. A. L. Diamond's "The Apartment." At the SHUBERT, W. 44th...
...president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; of a stroke; in Bel Air, Calif. Brackett began writing short stories for the Saturday Evening Post, soon switched to The New Yorker as drama critic. Next stop was Hollywood in 1932, where he and Billy Wilder collaborated on 15 pictures, including Academy Award winners The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950). Brackett's final Oscar was for his Titanic (1953) screenplay, which captured all the heroism and much of the horror of the world's greatest maritime disaster...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's magnificent farce, Some Like It Hot (1959), stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as innocents of the '20s chased by Chicago Mobster George Raft and Florida Millionaire Joe E. Brown...