Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy Price." In contrast with the night of cries and hoarse cheers, the formal joint session of India's Parliament next day seemed a world apart. Ike's speech to Parliament had been planned as the highlight of his Asian trip but it got only a lukewarm reception (13 desk-banging applause interruptions), partly because it said some things about force that neutralist Indians did not particularly want to hear, left unsaid some others-such as a massive foreign-aid commitment or a resounding promise to fight beside India in case of Chinese invasion-that they wanted very...
...achieve such precise stagecraft, Actress Bancroft worked hard with a variety of teachers, still submits to the rigorous and introspective training of the Actors' Studio. What sets Anne apart from other Method actors is the stubborn perseverance with which she has kept her quick and sensitive emotions unfettered by theory and cant. "I've never liked to read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said...
...Apart from Major Hall's crochet hooks. the image that lingers longest with the reader is that of poor Ella Haggin on a coconut isle with the ominous thrum of bongo drums in her ear, while the natives chomp raw fish for an appetizer. Author Eliot confides that eventually Ella got a divorce, but otherwise she leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears...
...Renwal's Visible Man. A 16-in.-tall clear-plastic assembly kit of the human body from skin to skeleton, with veins, arteries, bones and body organs, Renwal's man can be taken apart and put together again. List price...
...Hubley Manufacturing Co.'s Tic-Toy Clock. The spring-driven plastic clock, with its mechanism visible, actually keeps lime, has big, colored parts that can be taken apart and put back together again. List price...