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Word: graftia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STEAL A MILLION. Ars graftia artis. Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in an elegant comedy about the joys of burgling and forging the old masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jul. 29, 1966 | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...cross between a pinball machine and a Rembrandt portrait. Griffith has turned Sunday painting into a world-famous collection of Cezannes, Van Goghs, Renoirs-all part of $100,000 worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand are Art Dealer Charles Boyer and a frenzied connoisseur (Eli Wallach) who yearns to whisk both Audrey and the nude Cellini back to his Stateside lair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Artful to a Fault | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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