Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work; at times openly satirical, at others tragically serious. The plot, based on Nikolai Leskov's story, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, tells of a frustrated wife who eventually destroys the men around her. All the characters are thoroughly unsympathetic. The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing. As the wife, Niconora Andreyeva has spirited dramatic presence, but vocally she is insecure. Tenor Vyascheslav Radzievsky, as her husband, has a thin, weary voice, possibly because he forces it at top volume no matter what the circumstances. The many supporting roles are also sung...
...past shipments of military hardware. Food is becoming increasingly scarce. The government long ago decreed three meatless days a week, has told Egyptians to eat macaroni instead of their beloved rice, and now faces the prospect of a macaroni shortage unless it can find a way to import vast quantities of wheat...
...feather-light iron choir grille displayed in one tiny chapel comes from the d'Ourscamp Abbey, on the banks of the Oise, which is still part of an operating monastery. The museum also contains iron jewelry (fashionable in Napoleon's day, when the British blockade prevented the import of finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys, 700 padlocks, 600 door knockers, and more than 100 pairs of scissors, including one shaped like a pelican with the blades forming its beak. Coffee mills designed to grind...
...Yanks are going because the Mexican government, battling an unemployment problem in its northern states, has begun to allow individual U.S. manufacturers to import materials without paying duty-as long as the goods made from them in Mexican plants are shipped right back across the border. If the returning products meet certain U.S. tariff-law standards, the manufacturers need pay only a nominal U.S. duty on the value of the Mexican labor involved. "Our idea," says Octaviano Campos Salas, Mexican Minister of Industry and Commerce, "is to offer an alternative to Hong Kong, Japan and Puerto Rico for free enterprise...
There are some 30 million teens in the U.S., and they spend $12 billion each year. That enchanting fact has prompted publishers to go after a share of the teen green. The first adolescent stirrings were detected more than ten years ago when two events of major import to teendom coincided: the birth of Elvis Presley as an idol and the death of James Dean. Suddenly publications bearing either one's name were selling half a million copies. Soon magazines were riding, first, the Beatles, then the Rolling Stones, and now the Monkees. Currently, half a dozen monthlies...