Word: might
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of all this standard TV bickering, a point of calm was Margaret Bourke-White herself. Did she mind reliving the operation that might have claimed her life? "No," she said. "I'm so grateful to the operation for setting me free that it's beautiful to me." In the final scene, Teresa Wright showed the patient's recovered coordination by bouncing a big rubber ball. Later, the producers gave the ball to Maggie, who said: "I am delighted. This is my payola...
...performance of Tristan starring new Soprano Birgit Nilsson (TIME. Dec. 28), the Met's three Heldentenore suddenly found themselves out of voice, the victims of winter colds. (The fact that two of them, Ramon Vinay and Karl Liebl, had been panned by critics after earlier appearances might have also affected their health.) Rather than cancel a sold-out performance, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing resorted to a technique normally used by Casey Stengel and the New York Yankees, sent in each tenor for a single act. "Fortunately," added Bing, "there are only three acts...
...might seem that bad reviews would result in an intense bitterness. But the opposite is true. [The] critics represent our last bastion of integrity. They can neither be bullied nor seduced into writing good reviews. The one wonderful thing about the reviews is that you don't have to wait long. A play takes up a year of heartache to get to Broadway, but the critics render the decision within an hour and 15 minutes, and it is a major decision, one from which there is little appeal. The theater is probably the only business in the world where...
...society celebrated its swift growth by moving into a new building on East 64th Street designed by Philip Johnson and christened Asia House. Architect Johnson's curious combination of austere steel-and-glass with a luxurious leather-and-linen decor might strike some visitors as overformal, but at least it did nothing to detract from the superb objects displayed in the opening show. The loan exhibition chosen from the top American collections consisted of 46 masterpieces, ranging from Japan to Afghanistan and covering a span of 3,000 years...
Last week's seafaring mercy mission was the worst, but not the first, for the perfumer-monks of Caldy; they have brought help to at least six other storm-beleaguered ships in the past few years. Cracked Brother Thomas last week: "One might say it's a monk's habit...