Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including Moses, John the Baptist, Ben-Hur, El Cid, Macbeth, Michelangelo, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, as well as the off-camera voices of Franklin D. Roosevelt and God. Of course, the studios would never let him retire. He is, in the trade term, one of the most "bankable" box-office stars going...
...Wrong Box. In a proper English drawing room at the turn of the century, two pulsating Victorian lovers come face to face, and old-style title cards flash a legend upon the screen: Alone with Her at Last-in a Room Full of Eggs. The eggs are part of a collection belonging to the young lady's cousin. The lovers are Michael Caine, a nincompoop medical student bursting with latent virility, and Nanette Newman, a delectable Victorian miss sustained largely by fantasies about the 300 helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality...
...instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators of the Dam. When, in 1953, a black-bordered box in Egyptian newspapers reported that a hyperthyroid condition endangered her voice, no doctor in the Middle East dared to treat her for fear of damaging "Allah's treasure." At the invitation of the U.S. Government, she was treated successfully with isotopes at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center...
Pandora's Box. An unknown aboriginal people built the washboard-like excavations possibly more than 1,000 years ago, using only the crudest implements, without benefit of metal tools or draft animals. Their motive remains a mystery, although some speculate that the shallow channels lying between the ridges may have carried water to or from grain or root crops grown on top of the long mounds...
...Graduate Student William Bowen report in the Geographical Review that the area once may have supported as many as 80,000 people, a vastly greater aboriginal population than has ever before been attributed to such an American tropical lowland. The discovery, they write, "opens a Pandora's box of questions relating to cultural origins." To which Parsons adds, "The discovery might even have implications of transpacific migration...