Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judy West, at Los Angeles' Red Roulette room, is a kind of Patti Page of the keyboard. Combining elegance and brash good humor, she bounces freely from Latin to folk, Hawaiian to Dixieland, but is most effective in numbers with a hint of country twang. An attractive divorcee, she has a large following among the men, to whom she plays as deftly as she plays the piano. She can be either nursemaid or sedup-tress, gauging her attack by "the different stages of drink." Says she: "If they're looking at me, I try to entertain. If they...
...been the object of almost constant investigations and allegations by the Federal Government. Six times he was brought to trial but only twice convicted. Hoffa took modest refuge in an ancient businessman's gag: he festooned his desk with a bronze plaque inscribed with the dog-Latin motto: Illegitimi Non Carborundum (Don't let the bastards wear you down...
Persona (the ancient Latin word for mask) is too deliberately difficult to rank with Bergman's best. But in an era when the director who dares to repeat himself is rare indeed-when the cinematic world is full of one-shot wonders, Bergman's consistency is itself refreshing. His bleak, unsparing vision of the condition of man remains his private property. Persona is one more acre of that estate-often tilled, perhaps, but still worth the plowing...
...accord.) There comes a time, however, when the Volunteer realizes he has had enough; his own privacy counts too, and is doubly important if he has work that must be done in peace. At this point he simply becomes more selective. It is no more possible to like all Latin Americans than it is to like all the people in your apartment building...
Died. Gerard B. Lambert, 80, venturesome businessman who made Listerine a U.S. household word by coupling his father's antiseptic mouthwash to the word halitosis (meaning bad breath in Latin), was so successful that he was able to sell out for $25 million in 1928, after which he spent four years, from 1931 to 1934, putting an edge on Gillette Co. (by introducing a one-piece razor and the blue blade) before retiring for good to sail his J-class sloops Yankee and Vanitie in numerous America's Cup trials without notable success; of arteriosclerosis; in Princeton...