Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian teachers who want to know more about our class room service may write the TIME Education Program, Radio City P.O. Box 666, New York, N.Y., 10019. Others may write TIME Education Program, 5 Ottho Heldringstraat, Amsterdam 18, Holland...
...Opera Is Too Dangerous." Outside the store, Gimbel was, in his own words, "a simple man." Wife Alva, to whom Gimbel was married for 54 years, once tried to get him interested in opera. Their first night at the Met, a pair of opera glasses fell out of a box above them and hit Gimbel on the foot. "If that had been my head, I would have been killed," he said. "Opera is too dangerous." Instead he settled for gin rummy, frequent trips to nearby race tracks with such intimates as Toymaker Louis Marx, and daily sessions at the Biltmore...
...Box. Six years earlier, in 1915, Sarnoff had proposed a "radio music box," predicted it would bring music, lectures and reports of national events into the American living room. In the confusion of World War I, Sarnoff's memo had been pigeonholed. Now he dug it out, showed it to Owen Young. Sarnoff's boss was enthusiastic, but the RCA board would agree to put up only $2,000-which Sarnoff spent to transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing...
...Wrong Box is a deliberate fraud, with the prime example being the extra scene to get Sellers' name on the marquee. Audiences here have come to expect freshness, a fast pace, and genuine, if strange, with from the English imports, as in the Beatles' movie, The Knack, or even Morgan. But producer-director Bryan Forbes is not a Richard Lester. There was no valid reason to use the Victorian setting except to provide some lush decorative backgrounds and to hurl extremely naive lampoons at a sensibility that has already been lampooned to death...
...audience, who after a two dollar admission feel they should laugh at something, are forced to settle for gags. The phony death certificate, mistakenly filled in for the following day, elicits, "Here today, gone tomorrow." One can only hope that the same fate befalls The Wrong Box...