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...haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most powerful roles portrayed deeply troubled or doomed women, such as the dipsomaniac in I'll Cry Tomorrow and the bar girl...
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...zenith, during the 1950s, Moses concurrently held twelve state and city jobs. His spending budget was $213 million a year. Any politician who blocked him was likely to be deluged with calls from city power brokers like Jack Straus of Macy's, Banker David Rockefeller, Building Trades Union Chief Peter J. Brennan...
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis. I want to say that Judy Garland has sparkle, but that sounds paltry: the imagery of her life has always been more like a shooting star, burning out fast but brilliant. This movie lies at the zenith of her arc, anyway, and she's a wonder, starched and rosy-cheeked and singing Trolley Song with an energy that makes her creditable daughter Liza Minelli look like a radiator. The 1944 color in this Vincente Minelli (the same) period piece is gaudy, sumptuous and eerie-looking relative to the hushed or sheeny tones...
Bynoe also said that affirmative action was designed to move schools to a more acceptable position, but that no one could expect to reach "a zenith" in one year. "This is just a beginning," Bynoe said...