Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture was shown Sunday without picketing, and an attendant at the Brattle's box office said that last night's demonstration had not affected sales. "The pickets are a very nice group," he added, "and very orderly. They're nicer than a lot of our customers...
...make absolutely certain that no one man, from the AEAO on down, can start a Strangelove-style war of his own, every member of the Looking Glass team carries a .38-cal. revolver aboard. Said General Gillem last week: "If I were to reach for the red box without authorization, I would probably find the revolvers of seven or eight men at the back of my head...
...Technical base for Communism or not, there is no escaping the fact that having in effect posted a suggestion box, the Kremlin has found Pandora's name on it. Last month a Moscow economist proposed that the profit motive even be extended to agriculture, Russia's perennially insoluble problem. Last week in Trud, a trade official named Lazukov suggested that Russians should learn to advertise capitalist-style, with TV commercials, trailers in movie houses, and professional Madison Avenue men. Izvestia recently lamented that while the U.S. has 50 university-level business-management schools, Russia has none. Though...
...left hand. But in the first round he bloodied Chuvalo's nose; in the second, he unleashed a series of six straight combination punches that buckled Chuvalo's knees; in the fourth, he raised a nasty mouse under Chuvalo's eye, and went on to box rings around the plodding Canadian. At ringside, Clay shouted into his microphone: "I was wrong! I was wrong! Floyd is fighting just the way I fought Liston! He's a real threat to my title...
Trial of Joan of Arc. With the exception of Carl Dreyer's silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), the numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for French Director Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master...