Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solemnly told his story: instead of destroying the beetles, he had made pets of them. "I intended," he said, "to trace their biological development, but when the larvae became beetles, I got the idea of performing an antistate act. I stopped in a slope under Vlkovec Hill, opened my box and threw my beetles into a potato field. I hated the people's democratic regime because the working class had nationalized my sandstone pits...
...business where money talks, Brando is now being hailed as "a real drag-'em-in big-tenner like nobody since Clark Gable." And his pictures have won loud, critical huzzahs as well as some stentorian box-office grosses. Last week Brando completed a seventh, Désirée, a film version of Annemarie Selinko's 1953 bestselling novel, in which he plays Napoleon. Twentieth Century-Fox boldly predicts that it may take in up to $10 million. "Two more like Brando," said one producer, "and television can crawl back in the tube...
...Yoga. Marlon's physical co ordination is equal to almost any task his imagination sets. He can play the bongos well enough to take a Saturday night seat in a Latin combo. He can box and fence and do an interpretive dance with all but the pros, and he has mastered enough yoga to demonstrate an exercise in which the abdominal muscles are rotated in a flowing movement around the navel...
...box containing Winthrop House phone number for the CRIMSON directory has disappeared. Winthrop's residents are asked to fill in their name, address, and telephone number on slips which will be available outside the dining hall at breakfast and at lunch...
...approval of the staid Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case as pleaded by [Salt]." But the film did little box office at the highbrow Academy Cinema, due partly to the presence of Communist pamphlet-passers. "To put it bluntly," complained Manager Francis Howard, "Salt's laid...