Word: bouquets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Classical Bouquet. Last season actors of all degrees of importance were paid $30 million for doing commercials. For actually acting on TV, the mass of actors earned $26 million. Movies paid them $20 million. For one 60-second commercial, an actor can make as much money as most starring players do in about 13 weeks of a TV series...
...James Mason agreed to plug the wine, but apparently felt that he was not in the Thunderbird class, demanded and got a Rolls-Royce instead. Now Sir Laurence Olivier is all but lined up. He wants not one but two Rolls-Royces, and for his 20 seconds of classical bouquet, he will probably get them...
...China's President. In the flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of Russia's new diarchy, an equally sour-faced Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There were no bear hugs for Chou, though Kosygin did bring a bouquet of flowers. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home, possibly to show that Russia was not overeager and to keep the visit a formal matter of governments, not an ideological meeting of parties...
...Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from any white woman, preceded by a signal apprising them of' the arrival of 'Evelyn Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood are vividly visual, from his nursery wallpaper (a pattern of medieval figures) to the beauties of the countryside and villages, which were rapidly being destroyed by urbanization in "the grim cyclorama...
PABLO PICASSO-Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th. Fifty Picasso posters, many created for summer expositions in the little pottery town of Vallauris, France, near where he lives, include his many variations of toros, a spring bouquet sketched for U.C.L.A., and some of his wife Jacqueline. At Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th, are 15 paintings of another woman in his life, Dora Maar. The portraits run through Nov. 14, the posters through...