Word: elfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Machine has already sold more than $14 million worth since it first strode across TV screens in 1960. Glass pays his 25 designers between $18,000 and $30,000 a year, but being an elf in Santa Glass's workshop involves more hard work than ho, ho, ho. Staff designers are expected to work 14 hours a day, six days a week; during crucial periods, Glass locks them in their rooms and does not allow them to speak to one another...
...great obscenity of politics decelerated Brecht's impact upmodern theater, and yet few seri critics, East or West, deplore fact that the playwright stooped elf in Marxist philosophy. For, ily, Answers in Brecht's plays second place to Questions, and ctical training provided him with a needed technique for ironically confronting reality. The intense study of Marxism which he undertook in the late 20's, imparted an intellectual discipline to his outlook and to his style...
...scene in which an aging trollop recounts her favorite dream. "I get married to a man 84 years old," she says wistfully. "He has a little money, and-do I get a rest!") Dassin himself, a man with the curious, worldly-otherworldly face of a middle-aged elf, is always amusing to watch. And mercurial Mercouri, a sort of Levantine Carmen Miranda, embodies with phenomenal vitality the philosophical premises of the film: 1) know-how is not necessarily power; 2) money cannot buy anything that really matters; 3) the only way to save the world is to love the people...
Married. Imogene Fernandez y Coca, forty-fiveish. elf-eyed TV, stage and nightclub comedienne; and Actor King Donovan, 41; after a summer stock stage-marriage tour in The Fourposter; both for the second time; in Manhattan...