Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Osborne's greatest distinction is his ability to write long, furious, bitterly hilarious monologues, using common speech in a new and corrosively expressive manner. In Nigel Kneale's screenplay, with "additional dialogue" by Mr. Osborne, the brillant, obscene rhapsodies that lit up the play have been ruthlessly cropped, in an attempt to meet the demands of what is always said to be a "visual medium," and nothing can compensate for this loss...
Your Sept. 7 article on Governor-elect Barnett displayed the same one-sided, prejudiced, narrow-minded view that characterized the campaign. We do not ask you to excuse us, only seek to understand us, and write about us with intelligence and objectivity. Being a liberal here is hard enough without articles and attitudes that display the same bitterness we are fighting...
...flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone...
Critics were less amused than the audience. "Some of these composers," said Corriere della Sera severely, "falsified their music to please the children. That means they have sold their souls to the devil, which disqualifies them to write for the innocent." The final word was left to elegant, 62-year-old Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. "I have no opinion on this performance," said he, "because I think Venice is not for children anyway and can only be appreciated when one is over 70 years...
...cigar maker, pathetically attached to his past friendship with the great labor leader, Sam Gompers. But in Moss Hart's telling, he becomes "an Everest of Victorian tyranny," the black sheep of a wealthy English-Jewish family, who married beneath his station-his wife could neither read nor write. Of an evening in their shabby flat, he would read Dickens to the illiterate woman-and punish her with awful silence if something displeased...