Word: normans
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fascinating Experiment. With them approved, CBS agreed to make what Producer Norman Twain (Bajour) called "a substantial, six-figure investment" in what was to be a $650,000 production. The timetable was set. Rehearsals would begin in January, followed by an out-of-town shakedown in Philadelphia and = the Broadway opening March...
...NORMAN ERIK HILDESHEIM...
...Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator by Thomas S. Buechner. 328 paaes. Abrams...
After 317 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, plus countless ads for everything from varnish to the Boy Scouts, Norman Rockwell is enshrined-in the U.S. at least-as "the best-known artist who ever lived." He is certainly the chronicler of one American dream, with its gawky Huck Finns, jolly G.I.s, laundered blacks and apple-cheeked mothers in bifocals; its flags, turkeys, sneakers and little clapboard banks. Today Rockwell's America may seem almost as distant as Thomas More's Utopia, but this sumptuous tome pleasurably suggests why his genre pieces, painterly apple-pie to the last...
...party was in the Imperial House, one of those refrigerator-like edifices Norman Mailer talked about in his report on the '68 Republican convention. The Aaronsons' two daughters and sons-in-law had rented a couple of large rooms off of the building's glittery lobby: one room for drinking and, as they say in Miami Beach, noshing; the other for a big sit-down dinner of roast beef and string beans and potatoes and cake...