Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon him to review the Zapruder films to see if he might have been wrong. The commission had merely shown the Governor screenings of the Zapruder assassination film, but LIFE gave him enlargements of 168 consecutive frames covering the whole shooting episode. As Connally examined them through a magnifying glass, he spotted details he had missed before and recalled the specific split seconds of those shattering moments...
...wine that is shown on the table at the end of her show is, for economy reasons, a mixture of water and Gravy Master; Julia herself once kidded the rumor by pretending to take a sip of the mixture, announcing, "I am now going to enjoy a delicious glass of estate-bottled Gravee Mastere...
Terror is a sly and stylish send-up of costume chillers as well as of that silly ass with the deerstalker and the magnifying glass. Scriptwriters Derek and Donald Ford develop a delightfully nasty notion: why,not pit the most famous Victorian detective against the most notorious Victorian criminal-lack the Ripper. The confrontation contains some bloody-awful picture possibilities, and Director James Hill (Born Free) has the wit to explode them as he exploits them. The bloodiest, of course, are presented by those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century...
...latter-day archaeologists have exposed four city blocks in so remarkable a state of preservation that its citizens might have left only yesterday: wooden doors still swinging on their hinges, a bronze water valve that works, unmelted wax tablets, cracked walnuts in a jar, coils of rope, cut flowers, glass jars, needles, thumbtacks, a dish of garlic, chicken bones left over from someone's last meal...
...Voice. Now comes this mod est revival. U.S.A. (1938), District of Columbia and Most Likely to Succeed (1954) have been reissued. World in a Glass, a shrewdly selected anthology from all the novels, with an essay by Kenneth S. Lynn, has just been published coincidentally with The Best Times, a compilation of new sketches described as "an informal memoir" -which is probably the closest thing to an autobiography that can be expected this modest...