Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cream Puff." One Congressman, Republican Durward Hall of Missouri, has gone so far as to urge his impeachment. Another, Florida Democrat James Haley, says that when it comes to pursuing criminals, "I do not believe that he could find a white elephant on a junior-league baseball diamond...
...CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP HELP. Boycott threats by the late Martin Luther King's Operation Breadbasket have forced major Chicago food chains to stock such products of Negro concerns as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. As a result, Mumbo-maker Argia B. Collins, 42, tripled his sales in 1967. This year, after a seven-year struggle, he expects to earn a profit...
...with heavy, horizontal pencil lines. She is letting her hair grow "as long as it'll go, down to me feet." In Manhattan to begin a promotion tour for Yardiev cosmetics, she just laughed when asked whether her fiancé-manager, Justin de Villeneuve, had given her a diamond ring yet. Said Twiggy, with a wave of her ring-laden fingers: "I ain't got no room for an engagement ring...
...schemes where addition is allowed to pass for logic, there was the danger of the parts not resting snugly with each other, and it is exactly that danger which hits Promises, Promises hard. The plot, taken step for step from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond screenplay, must be counted an asset; Simon has certainly contributed a better than respectable quantity of laughs; and the Bacharach-David score is exceptional by any reckoning, absolutely top-drawer by current musical-comedy standards. The problem is that the property works at cross-purposes to the adaption, and the adaptation at cross-purposes...
...HEART of this incongruity, I think, lies the gap between Wilder and Diamond on the one hand, and Simon on the other. There would be no cause to criticize the show in such terms if it hadn't retained so much from the movie and at the same time acquired so much that is new and not quite in phase. Besides holding fast to the screenplay's construction, Simon has used several short sections of dialogue intact, which have in common that they come from the story's more serious episodes. In the funnier scenes, he has cut loose with...