Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political verdict on that generation, especially since it followed rumors that he was under investigation for possible embezzlement and other charges. Although there was no firm evidence that the accusations were true, they added to the aura of scandal that has badly damaged Rabin's administration (see box...
Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) holds such worthies as the late Edith Evans, Kenneth More and Hordern in reserve for a comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however...
...irreducible components of the universe, along with air, fire, water and earth. It was also an element of society. There, and even more so in Japan, civilized life was inconceivable without wood, which furnished a world of artifacts, from the largest temple to the smallest lacquered box...
...covers a lot of ground, once over and rather lightly. One of the oldest objects in it, a lean and time-scarred funerary horse, was made in China late in the Eastern Chou dynasty, some 2,200 years ago; the more recent works include a scholar's writing box and an incised sign from a sake shop in 19th century Japan. The works are predominantly Buddhist, although there are two or three exceptional Shinto cult objects. The stylistic range is also very broad. Some of the pieces are, in essence, conventional religious decoration -like the spectacular head...
...story of Murdoch's latest foray begins with Clay Felker, the gifted but erratic editor who virtually invented New York (see box). He first met Murdoch about four years ago at the Virginia home of Washington Post Chairman Katharine Graham. Felker takes credit for introducing Murdoch to Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, and after Murdoch bought Schiff's ailing Post, Felker offered advice on ways to improve the paper...