Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbarian leader finally turned from the portals of Rome by the Pope and a collection of cross-bearing Christians Bovine Sophia Loren (disgruntled sister of the play-pen emperor) bounces by in a chariot--with that watermelon corpulence which, in this sublimating age, passes for beauty at the box office...
...switcher," who puts quality butter (60? a lb.) in the oleo box (30? a lb.). Another switcher trick: she partially empties a potato-chip tin, hides meat and other items in the bottom...
Pete arrives, and the two couples proceed to the dance in Sharpe Refectory, reputed to have the best kitchen facilities of any college in the country. The building is constructed like boxes fitted inside each other: the innermost box being the kitchen, the surrounding one "the pit," where the independents eat, the outermost one a carton segmented into a small room for each fraternity. Tonight, however, the fraternity dining rooms are locked and vinly drapes hang like shower curtains all along the room, diffusing the red, blue and white light along the highly-polished brown floor and light green walls...
...smoke of U.S.-made westerns, the shooting began earlier than usual one day last week. It was midmorning. and crowds milled through the busiest shopping area of Cyprus' third-largest city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA terrorists: William Dear, 61-year-old police interrogator...
...bets not on one picture but on the independent's record. If a producer runs over his budget, U.A. lets him alone, keeps its fingers crossed; the extra cost may be made up at the box office. Says Director William Wyler, who is $1,000,000 over his budget as he winds up making The Big Country: "I wish these guys would squawk. It would make me feel better...