Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the parcel, the prince found a lacquer box. Inside it was another box tightly encircled by adhesive tape. The plump, balding King, 63, and his handsome queen, 55, decided they could not wait for the unsealing, and left to meet with Cambodia's delegation to the United Nations. They had scarcely reached the reception hall when the palace trembled as a bomb blasted the room they had just been in. Prince Vakrivan was blown apart; a palace servant was killed and four others seriously wounded...
...began to turn out plans for buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight. "In our buildings,'' says Yamasaki, "we try to think of what happens to a human being as he goes from space to space, and to provide the delight of change and surprise...
Boffo. Though Heimrich named no specific films, lest the notoriety make them boffo at the box office, his target was obvious. Such pictures as Cat Girl and Cry Tough are loaded with unnecessary rough stuff; scenes from The Horse Soldiers, Anatomy of a Murder and It Started with a Kiss boast overt, even sniggering sex. The wonder is that the Protestants have waited so long to draw a bead...
...Sica with some of Italy's greatest postwar protest films (The Bicycle Thief, Shoeshine, Umberto D. and The Roof), his participation in this featherweight import may come as something of a surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema history have all been box-office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that of the once brilliant Italian film...
...Newcomer Britt's acting ability still remains to be proved, there is no question about the professional skill of longtime German Box Office Idol Jurgens. Though he is almost too handsome for the role of the petty-tyrannical high school teacher (played in the original by Emil Jannings), Jurgens subtly conveys the unavowed jealousy that flares up within him whenever he catches his students ogling Lola Lola. And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional...