Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More drastically, the shooting often endangered the lives of his stars, one of them his ten-year-old son Pascal (who at six played the boy in The Red Balloon). No trick photography was used. Once, the balloon exploded, and the occupants, including Pascal, narrowly escaped death as the basket plunged to the ground. Lamorisse reworked the script to make the accident part of the plot. Says Lamorisse: "Poetry is always an accident in cinema...
...them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen, and the saint's pet cat went along in a basket...
While the U.S. is going to hell in a hand basket-and only half-safe at that-the Democrats in Congress tried to save the nation by adding two new states, buying medical research, and bringing in a civil rights bill. "If only there had been a Democrat in the White House," said Church, "there would have been plenty of money to enact housing, unemployment, school construction and other such bills without deficit spending and new taxes...
...Florence" went on display. It was, said Batini, "Florence behind the fagade," and it turned out to be a spilled cornucopia of ancient masterpieces and oddments. There was everything from brilliant primitive paintings to snuff boxes shaped like glass slippers, 14th century Tuscan ceramics and the red-fringed picnic basket that an 18th century Corsini cardinal once took into the Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing...
Like Love (Andre Previn and Orchestra; Columbia). Composer - Arranger-Pianist Previn offers some familiar thoughts (Love Is Here to Stay, I Wish I Were in Love Again) wrapped in a cobwebby basket of strings. The best thing about the record is Previn's own piano playing, which comes across dry, witty, and with a feeling for mood and invention that never falters...