Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just the right whiff of Gallic is indestructible Charles Boyer, a delight to watch as he runs a school for would-be grooms, whose current pupil is Ricardo Montalban, the runner-up in the match for Hope's millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario has more...
...Tony Perkins. Moments later. Robert has bared his vicious little ego and in a fit of petulance is smacking the daylights out of Wife Lisa to launch this chilling story of mismatched mates. When Lisa gets the news that Robert's airliner, bound for Casablanca, has crashed near Bordeaux killing all on board, her grief is tempered with relief. Two nights later, she is awakened by a rapping at the door. It is Robert, bleeding and disheveled, but still smiling his winsome smile, and still alive. "Airplanes." he explains, "do funny things before they crash." So do plot lines...
...less interested in dynastic decay than in dilettante dilemma. The islanders' big "fight McKinney" meeting bogs down in bickering about whether or not a mole has been gnawing at croquet court number three, and the whole argument becomes entirely academic when a pair of McKinney's bulldozers crash onto the court in the middle of the annual tournament. A hapless adulterer, surprised by strolling teen-agers as he waits for an assignation on the beach at night, has to take to the sea fully clothed. " 'Water's great; he croaked, trying to sound carefree. His necktie...
...national tragedy of the Andrea Doria disaster in 1956, it came back by building the Cristojoro Colombo and the Leonardo da Vinci in the 19505, six months ago launched the Michelangelo, a 43,000-ton superliner for the North Atlantic run. Last week, to the crash of band music and the splash of spumante, Michelangelo's twin, Raffaello, slid down the ways at Trieste. When the two ships go to work next year, replacing the prewar Saturnia and Vulcania, they will be the fastest liners on the New York-Mediterranean run, cutting the voyage to Naples from eight...
Died. Emile Bustani. 55, founder and chairman of Lebanon's $60 million Contracting & Trading Co. (CAT), the Middle East's biggest and most important industrialist, a friend of the West who was a firm advocate of inter-Arab economic development; in the crash of his private plane; in the Mediterranean near Beirut...