Word: edens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). One of the last of the all-silent films, 1928's Garden of Eden...
...pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts at Cannes and Juan-les-Pins and its proximity to the swimming, sunning and water skiing at the Riviera's chic Eden Roc beach...
...Gort's army was in full retreat from Hitler's Panzers toward the Channel ports when Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill's Secretary of State for War, gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy...
...million building is tucked in neatly on a 100-ft. by 320-ft. corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, has 800 rooms, 21 stories, and looks compact enough to be stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street is a welcome change from Manhattan's orange-crate rectangularity, but the sea-green...
...Scientist department that the film excels. Joan Fontaine plays a World-Renowned Psychiatrist with fierce regard for tradition: she is snappish and mean to Walter Pidgeon, the World's Greatest Scientist right up to the moment she is eaten by the shark. Balance is provided by blonde Barbara Eden, as cute a canape as ever broke a giant squid's heart. Tradition must sometimes be broken if an art form is to grow: she plays Pidgeon's secretary, not his daughter. Her function is to proceed about the submarine at canter, bearing messages, coffee and surcease from...