Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stupidity of Targets' distribution has received a lot of press coverage over the last few months, undeservedly I think, since the film itself is every bit as perversely eclectic as its marketing. The camera pulls back to a full shot of a family dinner, and Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life is recreated; Karloff's monologue recalls Welles' in Mr. Arkadin as surely as we recognize Strangers On A Train when the sniper's ammunition falls just out of reach (shades of Bruno and the cigarette lighter...
...center, their bills to be paid with a $40,000 fund raised by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. The men got some $200,000 in back pay and promptly unloaded some of it in the PX, opened for an hour despite the holiday. After a Christmas dinner, Bucher read a message from the families of Apollo 8's astronauts: "Your reunion has brought great joy into our hearts this Christmas Day." The Pueblo crew members reciprocated. After the space capsule's successful splashdown, they sent the three astronauts a telegram reading: "Although we 82 tried to monopolize...
...busy until about 4 p.m., when she breaks away for her daily stroll through Gangtok or perhaps a set of tennis. Evenings are usually filled with official functions, or private parties, and the royal family has a wide circle of Sikkimese friends. She likes a Scotch and soda before dinner-or "even after dinner," she confides-but managed to give up smoking two years ago. Her husband, the Chogyal (King), does not smoke either-he prefers to chew betel nut. Droll, fluent in English and forward-looking, he appears years younger than...
...shadows of Christmas Eve stretch across the cobblestone court yard of the St. Thomas school in Leipzig. Along the first floor, where the choirmaster lives, the windows glow with candlelight. A young Hausfrau, surrounded by half a dozen children and pregnant with another, bustles through the cluttered rooms preparing dinner. Her husband is busy copying the parts of his latest cantata, which he must soon rehearse with his musicians and singers for next morning's service, at the church across the courtyard...
...highfalutin Whitey lover who is afraid that a lynching will ruin her daughter's debut, which is slated to be "written up in the paper near the society page." But many prefer him dead-the church for ritual, the whites for souvenirs, an African tribeswoman for dinner...