Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Except for a few small details, the scene could have been "The Brickyard" at Indianapolis or Florida's famed Daytona Speedway. In the stands, thousands of fans cheered their favorites as big-league factory teams fought for that extra profit a racing victory always brings. Around and around the four-mile course, the world's best drivers gunned their big machines, each one perfectly tuned and tended by pit crews capable of performing mechanical marvels with spectacular ease. The speeds were startling, the promise of disaster ever present...
...first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne Price, and there are plans for brand-new productions by Franco Zeffirelli of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, along with Renata Tebaldi's Tosca and a so-far-uncast La Traviata. Thereafter, apparently, except for Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Home in a new Norma, the 16 offerings will be familiar...
...took him to art school in Paris, carried him through the rest of the Continent, and deposited him with a bump back in the States 13 months later. "It was a black period for me," he recalls. "I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, except get out of California. I'd grown up there, but I always had this image in my head of living in New York. So I took off for the East with some idea of being an artist. When anybody asked me what I wanted to be-whatever that means...
Annoying Ploy. British humor can be highly perishable, and its point is often so obscure as to defy detection -except perhaps, by the British themselves. But Stephen Potter's wry and understated advice on how to win games, including the game of life, with losing hands endeared him to readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Any of his satirical books, from the first (Gamesmanship, or The Art of Winning Games
...pursues her until she gets a divorce after he is sued for alienation of affections in a headline scandal. He marries her, has two kids, continues as a Broadway star, gets on TIME'S cover but can't make it really big in radio, TV or movies (except for Oz). He wins a huge artistic success in Waiting for Godot as his stage career dims, and finally -oh, irony-makes the biggest money of his life ($75,000 a year) pushing Lay's Potato Chips on TV commercials. Until at final fadeout with cancer (his hypochondriac nightmare...