Word: camel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room in Manhattan's Whitney Museum. The dim light evoked the ambience of a silent desert night, but what chiefly provided the mood-a wonderfully eerie mood of austere melancholy-was the shambling, work-scarred beasts. Their hair was realistically matted, their baleful glass eyes shaded by the camel's peculiar glamour-girl eyelashes. One even wore a camel's remote, superior smile...
Tobacco companies are traditionally among the first and biggest bidders for TV time, and so far most of them are being just as aggressive for next season. Reynolds Tobacco (Winston, Salem, Camel), which is the TV industry's third-largest sponsor, plans at least to equal the more than $42 million it has budgeted for broadcast advertising during the current season. Admen expect that American Tobacco (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) will spend about the same as last year: more than $26 million. Liggett & Myers is also holding the line on TV. Some of the companies have been negotiating...
Because ex-King Saud's doctors had recommended that regular quaffing of camel milk might prolong his life, a Thracian camel was tied up behind the plush Kavouri Hotel near Athens...
...pace is familiar. Play Dirty plods across the screen like a camel in a sandstorm. In that desert in 1942, a smartinet officer (Michael Caine) is assigned to blow up an oil depot of Rommel's desert rats. But the officer has rodents of his own-junkies, homosexuals, thieves, who compose his squadron. Only proper, announces his commandant, since "war is a criminal enterprise." So is Play Dirty, which leaves no oases of taste or drama along its route. There is also no room for Caine, a skilled actor, to display his talents in a war picture that could...
Into the Carriage. Eventually, five eight-year-olds claimed the car as their private playground, crawling in and out of it and smashing the windows. One of the last visitors was a middle-aged man in a camel's hair coat and matching hat, pushing a baby in a carriage. He stopped, rummaged through the trunk, took out an unidentifiable part, put it in the baby carriage, and wheeled...