Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future duke, who had little respect for artists, quickly found that there are artists who have little respect for dukes. In this austere portrait, the trappings of glory are absent. Even the order of the Golden Fleece is hidden beneath the cloak, and the sharp-featured face is neither benign nor particularly heroic. Goya painted exactly what he saw: a cold and contemptuous Englishman who regarded the exuberance of the Spaniards as rather poor taste...
Going to School. The U.S. bishops' school for reporters is evidence of mild ecclesiastical protest against the secrecy that is supposed to cloak the conference. The council did set up a press office of sorts. But Msgr. Fausto Vaillanc, a Vatican clerk impressed as chief press officer, confines himself to distributing the official one-page bulletins in seven languages. To the 300-odd newsmen still in Rome, the handouts are often worse than useless. Designed to report on each day's council conference after its close, the bulletins are sometimes written 24 hours in advance, and they...
...about how to succeed by really sleeping around, posted a closing notice, then rescinded it, and is apparently hanging on by comely Carroll Baker's sliding shoulder straps. Manhattan's Seventh Avenue has been pilfered, as it is a couple of times a season, for a spotty cloak-and-suit comedy called Seidman and Son that is full of decent sentiments and indecent sentimentality. A play it isn't, but thanks to Sam Levene, that endearingly amusing one-man encyclopedia of Jewish gesticulation, box office...
...Matter of WHO. Agent Terry Thomas of the World Health Organization in a cloak-and-needle WHOdunit about viruses and villains...
...Matter of WHO. Agent Terry-Thomas of the World Health Organization in a cloak-and-needle WHOdunit about viruses and villains...