Word: barnumism
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...annual Worst-Dressed Woman Awards. Even so, Liz ranks only fourth on Blackwell's current list of sartorial sad sacks, behind Barbra Streisand ("Today's flower child gone to seed in a cabbage patch"), Julie Christie ("Daisy Mae lost in Piccadilly Circus") and Jayne Meadows ("Barnum and Bailey in a telephone booth"). Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies, but it's not really their fault. "I should have named the ten worst designers," said Blackwell, "instead of blaming the women...
...Colosseum in Rome was the only place for last week's occasion. Leading a flock of family, flacks and photographers, plus an unruly lion, Hofheinz and his partners, Washington, D.C. Impresarios Israel and Irvin Feld, met in the grand ruins to buy the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from John Ringling North for $10 million. North, after all, has a home in Rome, so the Colosseum, said Irvin Feld, "was a natural. You could hardly have done the thing any place else...
...prospect is for favorable House action this year. If the bill is finally enacted, it will by no means repeal Barnum's law that a sucker is born every minute, but it may at least amend it to let the boob know for just how much he is being taken...
...group of engineers, scientists and charlatans, headed by P. T. Barnum (Burl Ives), decides to shoot the moon with a rocket ship to be sent up by German Genius Gert Frobe. The pilot: blond, bland Troy Donahue, ideal candidate for the world's first astronaught. Before the plot can get off the ground, two dastardly schemers (Lionel Jeffries and Terry Thomas) bet millions that the trip will fail, then try to sabotage the rocket for insurance. Only after some circuitous antique-automobile and bicycle chases and other mandatory sequences for period comedy does launch time occur-accidentally sending Jeffries...
Mask & Marsh. Although Tut's burial effects have traveled before (34 objects toured the U.S. in 1961-62), their Parisian trip was arranged with unprecedented showmanship by that esthetic Barnum. Culture Minister André Malraux. After first viewing a roomful of statuary entitled "The Theban Cradle of the Child King," the visitor accompanies the boy on his twilight journey from death and burial to resurrection and fusion with Osiris, god of the dead. In a dimly lit Salle Royale hung with blue velvet, glows the gold funeral chair, with its big-horned sacred cows for armrests, that was made...