Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, magnificent. As Brother Juniper, he is gay and wistful, pleading and commanding, mute and eloquent. He has the gift of changing the audience's mood from mirth to melancholy by altering the tone of his voice. And his stage presence is remarkable; his one or two fluffs sounded almost like part of the script, and he steadied a wavering child actor without missing a line...
Last May, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital of the All-Africa movement." Mboya declined to change the site, tartly pointing out that Nigeria, with a population of 35 million, is the largest African country. Ghana decided to call a trade-union conference of its own at the same time as Mboya...
...then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It pipes in some U.S. network shows (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ed Sullivan Show, River boat) that blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half produced for Ford of Canada by CBC) and the CBC-produced General Motors Presents-a sponsor cannot even worm his name into a show's title. CBC bars commercials from...
...reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...
...full-scale study" of the Daddy of Dadaists. The scrappy text suggests that the author followed a method once used by Duchamp for writing music-he drew notes and musical markings out of a bag at random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...