Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penelope is not a thriller. The studio releases hopefully describe it as a comedy, and in a picture of this quality the point is hardly worth arguing. The script, based on Howard Fast's pseudonymous potboiler about a light-fingered socialite, soon degenerates into a droll call of ancient wheezes that add up to a 97-minute heh. The actors (Natalie Wood, Dick Shawn, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Lila Kedrova) try hard to laugh it up, but most of the time they look the way the audience feels: like geese stuffed with chestnuts...
...letters dating back to the 1920s they discovered vague references to a mysterious "Eugenia," who turned out to be Sister Ann's illegitimate daughter. As Kruse's niece, Eugenia was clearly his primary heir. But was she alive? And if so, where? Further detective work in ancient adoption records located Eugenia. She was the adopted daughter of a couple who had never revealed her origin; her first name had been changed to Rosemary, and she was married to "a prosperous businessman in a small town in Michigan...
Haunting Harmonies. Today, some echoes of the past conflicts remain. In Fez, ancient Moorish families still jealously guard as heirlooms the keys to their former castles in Spain. And in Spain, it was only last week, in fact, that a high Spanish official paid a formal visit to the historic Jewish synagogue in Toledo, probably the first event of its kind since the expulsion of the Jews...
...ancient Hebrews, the grain rust that so often attacked their crops was nothing less than God's punishment for their sins. The Romans, who knew the same agricultural scourge, placed a special god in charge of it and prayed to him for mercy. In King Lear, Shakespeare blamed rust's presence on a "foul fiend" named Flibbertigibbet. Whatever its origin, the fungus is still thriving; its red, yellow and orange splotches on stems and leaves cause a grain-crop loss of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And every time that modern agronomists breed a resistant grain...
...been so long since we haven't been the team to beat in this meet that I can't believe it," said Crimson coach Bill McCurdy yesterday. "And when we were last picked for third goes back to ancient history...