Word: clod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owes much to a deliberate decision by its leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home...
...years," says Director Billy Wilder. Grant steadfastly insists that he has as much right to his privacy as a plumber or a municipal clerk. When people ask for his autograph he gives them an incredulous look as if they were trying to crash a party, and if some jolly clod says, "Put your John Hancock right here, Cary," he says, "My name is not John Hancock, and I have no intention of putting it anywhere." On one memorable occasion, a rebuffed fan snapped: "Who the hell do you think you are?" Grant, cool as the north wind, answered: "I know...
Geared for television, the Oscar show itself worked like a greased piston, and was not much more interesting. Most of Bob Hope's jokes seemed to have been written by the muscle-bound clod whose likeness is preserved in the Oscar statuette. There were some good ones, however, including one quip on the gritty mood of current moviemaking. For the best sup porting actor award, Hope pointed out, "those in contention are actors who played a juvenile delinquent, a Nazi, a gangster, a gambler and a poolroom hustler...
...period of relative lightheartedness-Death enters the film momentarily, but he goes away. Four dissatisfied wives, to put the matter redundantly, are having coffee in a summerhouse. While they wait for their husbands to arrive for the weekend, each tells of the moment when she became resigned to the clod she married. In the brilliant, imperfect episodes that follow, Bergman illustrates the Chesterfieldian proposition that he went on to prove later in Smiles of a Summer Night and A Lesson in Love: the position is indeed ridiculous, but the pleasure is anything but momentary if one is making...
...wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired from his job as a lab animal for common-cold researchers because he is too healthy to interest any germs. More is set to training with the cosmonauts...