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...have eliminated most of the druggy, decadent excesses, yet the city is still frenetically commercial. At the Cafe Givral, the Rick's Bar of wartime Saigon, a superb French-bread sandwich and cool citron presse are still available. Money changers, prostitutes and all kinds of small-time wheeler-dealers flourish, albeit rather more discreetly than ten years ago. North and South, Coca-Cola is for sale, but the black market stalls of Ho Chi Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy Martin cognac, Wilson tennis...
...Capital Cities. Leonard Goldenson, 79, ABC's builder and chairman, and Executive Vice President Frederick Pierce, 52, denied that fear was their main motivation for joining Capital Cities. But they did stress that the friendly deal would allow both organizations to continue the "independence that has permitted each to flourish and to provide the finest possible service to the public." Said Goldenson: "I felt the mix was absolutely perfect...
...unreliable as Babe Ruth's. "It wasn't just that Ruth hit more home runs than anybody else," observed Red Smith, who rode trains with Ruth and felt no need to exaggerate his ample stature. "He hit them better, higher, farther, with more theatrical timing and more flamboyant flourish. Nobody could strike out like Babe Ruth. Nobody circled the bases with the same pigeon-toed mincing majesty...
...cast does an excellent job of conveying Hitchcock's message that in the isolating circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party...
...Kimmel did it--with a flourish...