Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frugal one-bedroom apartment across from the sumptuous Watergate apartment-house complex. He breakfasts early at the Senate and works a twelve-hour day. A bachelor, Russell could dine at prestigious tables every night, but would rather go home to his favorite rocking chair. Says a friend: "Give him grits and a hamburger and he's happy...
...another way to outgain stock-market averages is not great. Last week the stock market slowly extended a technical rally from its July 29th low of 801.96 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. The average rose 16.37 to close at 837.25. Brokers almost unanimously expect that the rally will give way soon to a new drop that will "test" the low. Opinion is divided about evenly on whether or not the market will pass that test...
Adapted to the screen by Charles Dyer from his play, Staircase is a static, placid film in which the camerawork is subdued. Its strength is in its two key players. Each being determined, perhaps, to do his best acting before a peer, Burton and Harrison give firmly disciplined, finely delineated performances of undeviating honesty. Burton has rarely immersed himself in a part to the extent that one could forget he was Richard Burton, but he does it this time. Harrison has often seemed to be acting before a mirror rather than a camera. In Staircase he is acting before...
...scenes does not contradict, but rather deepens, the tragedy of the whole. As in Bonnie and Clyde, laughter is a kind of ironic counterpoint. The actors, many of them nonprofessionals who perform with repertory-company precision, are constantly framed against autumnal and winter landscapes that give the whole story an aura of aching desolation. Despite a few false steps (like a love scene between Alice and Shelly played with a garage air hose), Alice's Restaurant is one of the best and most perceptive films about young people ever made in the U.S. It is, as they themselves would...
...craftswomanly short story writer, Miss Arkin in this book has not so much composed a novel as arranged a tableau, then methodically violated it with sudden disasters. Give Miss Arkin a road and she'll give you an accident. Give her a decent storm and she'll burn at least one house down. Give her a lovable set of old bones and bingo, bango, she'll supply a fatal disease and buy the funeral...