Word: nast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kudos to Caricaturist David Levine for his truly memorable cover drawing of L.B.J. as a beleaguered Lear. Artist Levine is a worthy successor to Hogarth, Tenniel, Nast and Low-those forceful masters of effective caricature...
Babe directs Mayer's 31 scene opus with intelligence and precision, drawing on several different dramatic conventions. His brilliant blocking evokes the period with character groupings resembling Thomas Nast cartoons of contemporary editorial pages, and antiquated melodramatic woodcuts. Three major scenes are mimed in front of a black-and-white American flag, and it perfectly into the even pacing of the play. The most dazzling of Babe's devices concern the scene transitions, all of which are visibly effected by uniformed stagehands, and generally overlap with the action. Climactically, we watch the stage crew change a living room...
Newhouse already owned 14 other papers, plus Condé Nast publications, when he bought a controlling interest in the Springfield papers back in 1960. But voting rights to a large block of stock were not to be his until September 1967. In the meantime that stock was to be voted by the papers' management, which regarded Newhouse as a foreign raider and would not even let him look at the company's books. Newhouse fought back by filing a flock of lawsuits; he charged that the papers' profits were being haphazardly poured into the already swollen employee...
Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...
...Nineteen dailies with a combined circulation of 5,800,000. He also owns Conde Nast (Mademoiselle, Vogue, House & Garden) and five television stations...