Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of an international gang of bank robbers. In a Goldfingerish effort to rob the vaults of Geneva's Union de Banques Suisses, she is a glowing decoy, dressed in a luminescent lace leotard and equipped with a lipstick microphone, a powder-case television eye, and a sapphire clip that turns out to be a two-way radio...
During this summer season, the best ever, as many as 20,000 people a night have drifted up and down Wells trying to sort the clip joints from the first-rate, the gaudy from the genuinely giddy. In fact, that is Old Town's only problem: how to keep the gold-rush atmosphere under control. The Wells Street Association frowns on neon and flashing signs and is trying to get rid of barkers and sidewalk displays. One sidewalk guy can stay, though. Wells Street and Old Town would hardly be the same without their genuine mustachioed Italian hurdy-gurdy...
...when she got the hiccups. Except for two short periods, Lucy has hiccuped ever since. She tried home remedies-2,000 of them-from drinking gin to eating peanut butter. More than 100 doctors examined her. She was drugged and she was hypnotized. The hiccups continued-sometimes at a clip of 90 a minute...
...Army is field-testing a radio navigational system that enables troops to triangulate their position in unmapped areas. An 8-oz. radio receiver that a G.I. can clip onto his helmet allows him to hear his commanding officer's voice at all times...
...flashing titles across the screen to identify such commonplace objects as A Saw, A Tool Kit, Girls. The tricks are diverting at first, but finally smack of gimmickry. In the midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael Crawford, in his moments with her, ever truly possess The Knack...