Word: aida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gino Prato, 64, former Bronx shoemaker who in 1955 briefly became TV's top-rated star on The $64,000 Question, when he correctly identified the opera with which Toscanini made his operatic debut (Aida) for $32,000, then declined an all-or-nothing chance at the jackpot, after which he became a $10,000-a-year good-will ambassador for the Biltrite Rubber Heel Company; of cancer; in Miami...
Beautician Aida Grey has branched out from her female trade in Beverly Hills to open two masculine beauty parlors-the Esquire for Men and Boys, and the more expensive Olympian, where she has facilities for facials, massages, instant skin-tanning and eyebrow tinting. "In the past year, or year and a half," chirps chic, French-born Aida, "there's been a tremendous rise in men's cosmetics. I got into the male line when I discovered that about 50% of my customers had husbands who were using their beauty creams. We sell green powder for ruddy skin...
...Died. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, 77, founder of Manhattan's Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...
...theme of Girl with a Suitcase is an immensely popular one these days. Lorenzo (Jaques Perrin), a 16-year-old stripling, falls in love with Aida (Miss Cardinale), an older and more sophisticated person altogether, after his brother Marcello (Corrado Pani) betrays her (how he betrays her is a mystery). Lorenzo makes sacrifices for Aida, gives her money which is not his, and fights for her honor against assorted lechers while she looks on and tries to figure out what he is getting so excited about. Occasionally, she can understand what drives the boy, but she is too much...
...still Girl with a Suitcase will be acclaimed. It has precisely one good scene, in which Lorenzo sulks as a middle-aged playboy tries to put the make on Aida. Because it is 99 and 44/100ths per cent Italian, however, it floats. The first scene of the movie, for example, shows a car stopping and Aida getting out to relieve herself. In an American movie, this would be deplored as unnecessary crudity, which it is; here, presumably, it is wonderfully realistic. It's about time people began to appraise foreign movies on grounds other than how foreign they...