Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power to Burn. Then, in the early 19th century, the gold and diamond rush tailed off. Minas Gerais sank into backwoods somnolence. Not until the 20th century did the state come alive again. Even then the real surge had to wait until Juscelino Kubitschek, born in the old diamond center of Diamantina, moved into the governor's palace in 1951 in the new capital of Belo Horizonte. "Power and transportation," pledged Kubitschek, and that was only the beginning...
...payroll at Provenzano's insistence. Communale testified that he received the money, even though he performed no legal services for Dorn. Tony, outwardly confident of acquittal, acted bored during most of the testimony, coddled his chin with a well-manicured hand, his little finger aglitter with a huge diamond. On the stand, Tony was so evasively garrulous that his own lawyer asked the judge: "Please make that man answer the questions. All he's doing now is prolonging this business." The jury ended it by finding Provenzano guilty. He can be sentenced to 20 years, fined...
...decision. The competition was won by a group of Swedish engineers whose plans are so simple and so cheap they were never considered out loud in the long search. While others hawked their spectacular schemes, the Swedes worked quietly inside the temple itself. They probed the sandstone with diamond drills, measuring its strength. They charted its cracks and flaws. Finally they produced a carefully documented plan to cut the temple into chunks, lift it piecemeal to the top of the cliff and reassemble it-just as other workmen once cut up a European monastery, packed it in crates and shipped...
...world's oldest question, Shirley has this and assorted other heart-tugging answers. But there is no need to feel sorry for her; she loves her work, and so does Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment). With his favorite writer, I. A. L. Diamond, and his favorite Apartmentmates, Jack Lemmon and Shirley, Wilder has turned the Paris-London-Broadway musical show of several years ago into a raffishly sophisticated screen comedy that makes streetwalking seem almost as wholesome as the 50-mile hike. The score has been reduced to background music, and Wilder has wisely done away with...
Irma La Douce is no animated French postcard; its sexiness is played for belly laughs, not snickers. By pruning the script of prurience, Wilder and Diamond have managed to treat the sale of sex with vulgar good humor. Irma has no moral, of course; yet as an essay on virtue v. venery, it is as uplifting as a graduation address-and ten times funnier...