Word: convertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath their drab masques are three highly colored personae. Smith (Paul Ford) is a potato-faced professional vegetarian from the Midwest who plans to convert the natives to a diet of nut-burgers and Yeastrol. Jones (Alec Guinness) is a breezy, sleazy gun smuggler, all winks and leers, forever dreaming of deals. Brown (Richard Burton), in Haiti to reclaim his late mother's hotel, is a lapsed Catholic, a cynic, a middle-aged burned-out case. He is also a ready target for temptation, as substantially embodied in a Latin American ambassador's wife (Elizabeth Taylor). She waits...
...does a grocer diversify into psychdelia? "I just sort of like the stuff," Cahaly answered. The idea to convert the market's storage room occurred to him several years ago, but he didn't have enough time to put the new shop together until this past summer...
Thieu was also trying to convert other rivals into partners. Taking advantage of the split-up of the bloc of presidential losers, he has been trying to widen his own political base. He hopes to choose ministers from a number of different political groups so that his Cabinet will have the complexion of a government of national unity. The only thing that he seems uncertain about is the date of his own inauguration. Astrologers cautioned against holding it on Nov. 1 as planned, since the moon will be spent, its crescent thin and the tides low. Thieu is now considering...
...fraud could have hoodwinked an observer in the many phases of picture-taking and development that made up 19th century photography. Many of the pictures themselves appear to a McLuhanized eye to be patent fakes, double exposures and paste-ups. In 1869 Mumler, along with his wife and a convert, William Guay, was charged with fraud in New York. Despite a grandiose, sneering summation by the then Public Prosecutor, Eldridge T. Gerry ("If the prisoner's innocence is as strong as his supernatural powers are said to be, perhaps, like some of his 'spirits,' he may be able before...
...that the temple was a monument of stately form. Fenway Park is a misshapen variation on themes in green and grime. It is full of posts and bad seats. The left field wall, built high to convert cheap home runs into cheap doubles, belongs in a pinball game. But, given a choice between the Astrodome and Fenway, one would prefer the latter. On a summer afternoon the park makes delightful patterns of gloomy caverns and sunlit places. It suffers no totalitarian pastel plastic, no carnival scoreboard. It is true to the strange spirit of the city...