Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico? They registered at the Endicott Hotel and counted out $1,000 apiece. After stuffing the rest of the money in a paper bag, they went to Grand Central Terminal, and pushed it into a rented locker. Then, moving from one swank Fifth Avenue shop to another, and handing startled taxi drivers $5 to $10 tips in the process, they engaged in a surrealistic shopping spree...
...minutes later, boys & girls were seated in a Broadway bar. After a drink, Roberta excitedly told the tale of the hidden $15,000. The boys jeered. Roberta pulled out the locker key and waved it. A little later she went to the ladies' room, leaving her bag on the table. The boys soon drifted away...
...last week, U.S. Sabre jets shot down nine enemy MIG-15s. It was the biggest one-day bag of the Korean war (previous one-day record: six, on Dec. 22 and Oct. 2). Although the Red jet flyers have been improving recently, the Sabre pilots, according to U.S. airmen, have been improving even faster...
...inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram was glued to a piece about the herb. In later issues, Gentry's editors plan to paste a trout fly in a fishing article, a leaf of fine Jamaica tobacco in a piece on smoking...
Despite the premium put on their displaying a bag of tricks, both Leigh and Brando may well be heading for Academy Awards. Likewise, Kim Hunter does an outstanding job in the supporting role of Stanley's wife Stella, and Karl Malden is excellent as an awe-struck suitor. Camera work and the musical score are both exceptional. But the net effect of Kazan's direction is more controversial. He has charged the atmosphere to the saturation point with crisis and climax. After two hours trapped in a narrow room with Blanche, sitting under her spray of words alternately cloying...