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...Luini in Milan, Bellini breathed the glittering, clear splendor of Venice, which lay like a wide galleon of marble and mosaic moored to the Adriatic shore. Bellini's father, brother and brother-in-law (Mantegna) were all famed painters, who brilliantly adapted and modified in varying degrees the jewel-hard Byzantine art which trade with the East had brought to Venice. Giovanni Bellini did more; he created a new kind of painting in which observed and ideal reality became inseparable...
Observers gasped as a reluetaut shoulder strop slid down in the direction of her elbow, but Marie merely chuckled. "I can hold it up from behind," she averred, leaning forward to clasp her dimpled knees, the better to display a small jewel-encrusted watch on her left wrist...
Gannon won a jewel-encrusted medal as one of the "outstanding players of the East." A special gold football with chain attachment went to Moravec for what Pepsi Cola president W. S. Mack Jr. termed "being such a good...
With a gun at her back, she staggered upstairs, showed them it wasn't in the jewel box. The thugs spotted a 300-lb. safe, told her to open it. "I can't," she wept. "Take it." She knew the ring was in the safe. "Aaah, how can I carry a 300-lb. safe?" the gunman asked in disgust. The pair emptied her jewel box, locked Sayde and the maid in a closet and beat it. Sayde wound up in a hospital with a fractured skull. The crooks' heist...
Things get a little livelier in the second feature which, if not quite a thriller, at least offers automobile chases, loud pistol reports, and stony-faced intrigue. Entitled "Second Chance," it concerns a projected million-dollar jewel theft, in the course of which two of the crafty schemers fall in love. They double-cross their accomplices, enabling the movie to end on a clinch between two law-abiding citizens...