Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's best about it is probably Lee Marvin. Dressed in snaky black, with a silver schnozz tied on where his nose used to be before "it was bit off in a fight," Marvin soberly parodies several hundred western badmen of yore, then surpasses himself as the dime-novel hero, Kid Shellen. A "good" killer, the Kid arrives in town unable to live up or even stand up to his legend. His eyes are bloodshot from poring over whisky labels. On ceremonial occasions he wears a corset. When he is primed with rotgut, his fast draw...
...Crist has also become a feature attraction on NBC-TV's Today show, where, she says, "My criticism comes across more strongly than in print." Last March, she managed to pan three super-spectaculars in one brief appearance: The Greatest Story Ever Told ("A kind of dime-store holy picture"), Lord Jim ("A lot of heavy five-cent philosophy"), and The Sound of Music (she found the children "strictly loathsome...
...subtle differences between, say, absinthe and buttermilk, knows that small cokes taste quite a bit better than big ones. The original 6 1/2 ouncer is a real taste classic. On the contrary, the 10-ouncer is a vivid symbol of creeping materialism. 3 1/2 ounces more for your dime, and all that is sacrificed is quality. According to informed sources, the difference is due to the fact that there is the same total amount of syrup in each variety. . . Rem Rieder...
This week the giant F. W. Woolworth Co. (2,106 stores) follows the trend with one of the most ambitious projects yet. Buoyed by a two-week tryout in a New Jersey branch, where it sold dime-store buyers 450 art works priced from $17.50 to $2,000, Woolworth will open a permanent art gallery on the second floor of its Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. The gallery will emphasize contemporary art, will open with an 800-work, $750,000 collection that includes etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts by Braque, Chagall, Miró and Luigini. In their three-month search...
...they can view it with balanced detachment. To Italians under 30, the '30s seem remote, colorful and romantic-much as they do in the U.S., where today's teen-agers are making a jaunty pop hit out of that sour Depression lament, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...