Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What attacks Generals fatally and finally is neither its cliché-ridden script nor its miscast stars, but the gemütlich approach of Director Anatole Litvak. The slick editing and the bright, bold colors seem less to polish the picture than to varnish it, and they cannot cover the film's faults. The waifs of German-occupied Warsaw are too plump and well padded, the armies seem too clean and well mannered. And the officers are too self-consciously symbolic of Germany's decadence and decency, grossness and grace. Somewhere beneath it all is a plausible plot...
...into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe and the U.S. for a free look at the Phoenicia. Soon their clients filled it close to capacity, and it is now a gem of the chain. "We are a catalyst for economic growth and trade," says Gates. Case in point: after the Karachi Intercontinental opened in mid-1964 with cold martinis and five-hour laundry service, tourist arrivals in Pakistan nearly doubled...
...books compared to a handwritten Caxton manuscript. When the Englishman's 15th century translation of the first nine books of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, a series of moralizing fables, was sold at auction in London's Sotheby's (TIME, July 8), the illustrated gem fetched $252,000-a record high for any book ever sold to the public. A New York dealer bought it, and the 272-page manuscript seemed destined to remain forever separate from the other six books of the Meta morphoses, bequeathed by Diarist Samuel Pepys in 1703 to Cambridge...
...GLASS MENAGERIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' gem, with Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Pat Hingle and Barbara Loden...
...discussion between a Democrat and a Republican, to show without sermonizing that the U.S. does indeed have a two-party system. News, in accordance with listeners' habits, is still presented every 30 minutes, but a sprightly rendering of Yankee Doodle has replaced a pompous version of Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean as the break tune...