Word: corlis
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...narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance as unnatural. There is much less hypocrisy in films today...
...cor usually runs to dark paneling, Tiffany lamps and sawdust floors, the entertainment to jukeboxes stocked with the latest rock 'n' roll hits. Signs sometimes read: "Age Limit: 24 for Men, 21 for Women." Once the word is passed by the powder-room tom-toms that a particular hangout has become "a nice place to meet people," the rush is on. "After that," says Don Hogan, 39, manager of Denver's Piccadilly, "it all depends on what they work out together-kind of like electrolysis...
...announcing the gift last week, Architect William Hartmann, a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the three firms involved in designing the civic center, revealed that Picasso's design will be executed in ever-rusting Cor-ten steel, the same material as the 31-story building. "This is not a cast that bears the thumbprint of the artist," said Hartmann. "Picasso created some thing that has to be constructed like a building." To do so will cost $300,000, a tab to be assumed by three private foundations. If all goes well, the sculpture will be installed...
...then served under the aegis of Good Friend Harry S. Truman as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, Democratic National Chairman and, finally, from 1949 to 1952, Attorney General; of a heart attack; in Narragansett, R.I. McGrath's political demise came when Truman ordered him to look into cor ruption in government and McGrath hired Liberal Republican Newbold Morris as a special investigator; Morris began by investigating McGrath, which so enraged the Attorney General that he fired him, whereupon Truman reacted by summarily firing McGrath...
Despite their desperate need for U.S. investment, the Atlantic Council found, Europeans complain that the American investors' representatives often treat their hosts like cousins. U.S. cor porations are acutely aware of this complaint, and are indeed moving to mind their manners. With as much as half their sales now made outside the U.S., many large corporations have a growing tendency to think and act as global companies with world markets rather than as American companies doing business overseas...