Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz Impresario...
...episode began when a vaudeville impresario questioned the beauty of college women...
...judged that Franklin Roosevelt had a "second-class intelligence but a first-class temperament." Newt Gingrich has a first-class intelligence that fires through a strangely refracted temperament that is not exactly second-class but agitated and sometimes grandiose enough to make Americans nervous. He has proved himself an impresario of leverage in using Congress to change America, a sort of hothouse genius. Americans may discover in 1996 whether Gingrich can evolve outward--as a truly popular leader in the open...
...choosing Hitler as my millennium figure because in a personal sense...as an impresario of evil, he cut my daughter's century from her millennium by destroying the Polish Jews, the central European Jews," Leyner said. "This individual created a temporal schism for a lot of people. There's no returning to what was destroyed...
...what makes Barbara run, or at least walk? She has had to prove herself constantly--to her nightclub-impresario father, to the male-dominated hierarchy at NBC and later ABC, to the critics who don't think news and entertainment should be mixed. "I don't see why not," says Walters, who knew Milton Berle when she was a little girl and dated Roy Cohn in college. "Edward R. Murrow interviewed celebrities." Then there was the cbs producer who told her back in 1957, "You're a marvelous girl, but stay out of television." The producer...