Word: count
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression of wedding receptions and black-tie soirees in honor of anything and anyone, provided that he ranks somewhere up there with a U.S. Senator or a European count...
...little Parrish cares about laughter when you count up his attempts at wit and find that none is original. He opens with a aerial view of an electricity tower rising next to a statue of a Catholic saint--just like the opening of La Dolce Vita where a helicopter swoops over skyscrapers with a piece of saintly statuary roped to its belly. Unfortunately, Parrish steals the shot without understanding...
...more second-quarter and half-year sales and earnings were reported last week, many a corporate executive might wish that stockholders would believe the figures did not really count. Though hopes were high that the chart lines would soon be moving up, the news in the latest batch of reports was largely negative. Profits had been caught between higher labor and material costs and lower consumer demand. The Wall Street Journal, surveying earnings of 528 companies, found that their aftertax profit for the second quarter was 8.1% lower than last year's. In a similar survey of 500 corporations...
...food front, the slogan is "calories do count, but people don't." This principle is supported by the Chinese Air Force diet-popularly known as "The Sinkiang Man's Diet"-which was first developed in the "Mao Clinic" and was tested by the 19,007th Lighter than Air Fighter Squadron (otherwise known as the "Flying Paper Tigers"). It offers recipes for such dishes as "True Way to Marxist Contentment Soup," and "Sweet and Rotten Pork," all of which consist of rice, fish heads (if available) and radishes. If faithfully followed, the regimen is guaranteed to eliminate not only...
...stride stylists influenced a line of jazz pianists from Duke Ellington and Count Basic to such modernists as John Lewis and Theolonious Monk. Yet the stride heritage is waning fast, and the Lion is as outspoken on the subject as he is on everything else. "A good many modern pianists," he snorts, "tinkle with their left hand while their right is going nowhere. Modern style, they call it; I call it cheating." But of course he is prejudiced. "There's nothing more beautiful," he believes, "than a two-fisted pianist...