Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAIFA, Israel--Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Sunday that the Big Four talks to promote an Arab-Israeli settlement grew out of "a fiction that the Middle East is burning...
Though all four men are accomplished soloists, they display considerable sub-limination of artistic ego when they have their bows together. In traditional quartets, the first violinist is the unofficial leader; the Guarneri has no real chief. Though rehearsals often turn into vociferous debates, they are never allowed to get out of hand. Says Tree, "the performance always comes first." Two-to-two splits are resolved pragmatically by trying out both ideas at successive concerts...
Died. Alan Mowbray, 72, British-born character actor whose career spanned some 300 films; of a heart disease; in Hollywood. It pained Mowbray to be typecast as the perfect butler, which he played in 1937's Tapper and only four other films. In fact, he was so much at home in such roles (the tax-tortured tailor in The Boys from Syracuse, 1940; the lacy interior decorator in Jackpot, 1950) that the late John Barrymore could call him "a worthy adversary...
...Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous bug and turn it into scrap...
...years she and Curtis traipsed around Europe just ahead-but not too far ahead-of the photographers. By his count, their chauffeur banged up four Cadillac limousines outrunning the press. Raquel took to carrying a water pistol so that she could drill an occasional paparazzo who leaned in the car a little too far. But what could one do? Journalists were everywhere. Was it her fault that she kept getting shot in bikinis and microskirts and plunging necklines? Was she to blame if some 80 magazines put her on their covers...