Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed last week by Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet. What the government had in mind, beamed Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, was "a veritable emancipation of women." Under the new bill, a married woman for the first time will be able to take a job or open a bank account without her husband's permission. She will have the legal right to help decide where her children can go to school, to veto his plans to sell her property, and retain her own possessions if there is a divorce...
Could it be, they wondered, that Barr bodies might somehow account for the varying reactions to hormone therapy? First they had to find out whether there was any difference in the Barr bodies of different cancer patients. Dr. Hienz discovered that cancer cells from about two-thirds of the breast-cancer cases he was studying contained a normal quota of Barr bodies. But in cells from the remaining third of the patients he could find few or no dark spots. The absence of Barr bodies in some of the cancer cells suggested that those cells had been, in effect, partly...
...Just Luck. Machine tools now account for 90% of the company's earnings, but the most promising subsidiary is an engineering design and construction firm, Constructors John Brown. "C.J.B.," as its executives call it, is building the Algerian pipeline and the Russian plant, a fortnight ago won an order to put up an Imperial Chemical Industries complex in Yorkshire...
...remembers distinctly, knew nothing about their craft, the big studio producers rejected anyone with ideas, and the unknowns he ushered into fame -William Powell, Gary Grant-were ungrateful. He exposes in painful detail the ineptitude and neuroses of Actors Emil Tannings and Charles Laughton. By Sternberg's account, Laughton was not only incapable of delivering the simplest line, but could not begin a scene without listening to a recording of the Duke of Windsor's abdication speech, was in a constant state of panic, and froze so often in front of the camera that Sternberg was forced...
...account of Dietrich and the Svengali-Trilby relationship that produced The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman is pitiably bitter. While other stars complained of Sternberg's cruel direction, Marlene loyally praised the very hardships he put her through, as when he made her walk barefoot across the blazing desert while filming Morocco with Gary Cooper. But to Sternberg this was no more than a deliberate plot designed by Dietrich to gain public admiration for herself and to shower abuse on him. He recognizes some talent in her, chiefly an ability to follow direction...