Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gleeful violence, drunken driving and self-conscious smut. Chief compensation over the Ion? haul is Stella Stevens' zany, refreshing performance as a tourist who flees a conducted bus tour and plunges into escapades with the resolute air of a girl making every minute of her vacation count...
...what the father doesn't count on, is that Johanna also falls in love with Frantz, believes in his "crabs" more than he does, and perpetuates his isolation. The father then switches alliances, and tells Leni that Johanna has been seeing Frantz. That's when it really hits the fan: Leni tells Johanna of Frantz's past as a torturer; Johanna abandons Frantz; Frantz sees his father and they commit suicide together. Leni takes Frantz's place in the attic...
...fear that he would not score his usual A or B. A growing practice is to let students select some courses outside their specialties in which their grades are recorded as only "pass" or "fail"; they get credit if they pass, but the course does not count in their grade averages...
Bunch of the Boys. The Rubinstein who returned to Paris in 1920 had money, a growing reputation, and a still unsatiated hunger for the gay life of a gadabout bachelor ("I was 90% interested in women," he chuckles). He shared an apartment with a count, tooled around the boulevards in "a little carriage," and "was thin as a stick because I never went to bed until the morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel...
...sonata with Rubinstein. Einstein missed a cue in one passage and came in four beats late. They started again, and again Einstein flubbed. They began once more, and the great scientist again missed the cue. Finally, the exasperated Rubinstein cried, "For God's sake, Professor, can't you even count up to four...