Word: caking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hamilton, a hack if ever there was one, has directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves a powerful bore. The direction is admittedly undistinguished, but the script to Funeral really takes the cake: the spy sets out to get an East German big-wig out of East Berlin; naturally the unsuspecting audience assumes this is what the picture is about, but around the middle, part one gets neatly resolved and the plot begins anew, now dealing with the absurdly complex and not-worth...
When the Johnsons brought forth a red-frosted, three-tiered cake to commemorate the fourth season of Hello, Dolly!. Channing paraphrased a line from the show. "I'm deeply grateful to the Great Society," she exclaimed, "because you know exactly how to spread it around!" At another point, L.B.J. brought Everett Dirksen over for an introduction, and Carol bubbled: "I'm so glad to meet you. People keep saying we sound alike...
...Whipped cream and frosting may a wedding cake make-but not a marriage. Only the shimmering talents of two superstars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and the agile hand of Director Gower Champion, make this confectionery adaptation of The Fourposter palatable...
...long as it possibly can the tremendous competitive advantages gained from its own merger with the Nickel Plate and Wabash, which has been in effect for more than two years." Saunders called the N. & W. "the Marie Antoinette of the 20th century," telling every other railroad to go eat cake. But the N. & W., said he, already has much of the cake. "By all odds, it is the most profitable railroad in the world and it has a built-in efficiency and profitability that no other road or combination of roads in the East can ever jeopardize...
...meantime, Congress will have to let Powell have his cake and eat it too. As Supreme Court Justice Mathew Levy commented while citing the Harlem Democrat for criminal contempt of court, "It is not an easy task to punish a minister, a Congressman, a leader of men and a man of many natural gifts." As Congress must concede, without an ethics bill it is impossible to punish...