Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Python Meets Beyond the Fringe was ever conceived, much less actually released in U.S. cinemas. This movie is nothing more than a filmed recycling of some of the more famous skits staged by the Monty Python group and the lesser-known British group, Beyond the Fringe. If the former lent its name to the film for the sake of giving the latter greater exposure in a more commercial market, that's mighty big of the Monty Python people. But judging from the sloppy direction and arrangement of the skits, this latest Monty Python film--for it remains just that--appears...
...Wednesday is a movable fast, and in 1978 it arrives early, on Feb. 8. So Münchner decided to extend the saturnalia into Lent. Churchmen were outraged. The office of the Archbishop of Munich protested that while the church appreciated "the joy of living" expressed in Fasching, it considered the prolongation "totally objectionable." Fumed one priest: "Ash Wednesday is a religious symbol that needs to be preserved even if it hurts business." So much for symbolism. Munich's Fasching organizers canceled masquerades after Ash Wednesday. But other balls and celebrations will go on until March 5, just three...
Carcich's fiscal sins, known and alleged, ranged from what at the very least was foolish commercial speculation to the misuse of $1.4 million. He apparently lent money recklessly, without collateral. One chunk-$54,000-even went to ex-Governor Marvin Mandel to pay for his divorce in 1974. It has never been repaid. Carcich sank millions into shaky motel and real estate deals in Florida and five other states, and squandered $127,000 on cronies, a niece and a private secretary, while diverting $278,000 for his own personal use. Carcich is also accused of concealing bank records...
Rivalry for Turkey's prime-minister-ship has become an ongoing pas de deux. The dance began when Süleyman Demirel, leader of the conservative Justice Party, was named Premier in April 1975. Two years later, Bülent Ecevit, head of the liberal Republican People's Party, elbowed him offstage. But Demirel replaced him in July 1977. Last week Ecevit again succeeded an embittered Demirel, and their stately duet became a throbbing hustle...
...that exposure in your column gave a real boost to the sagging careers of my good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides, it's reading period and all, and the kids need something to lift them out of their doldrums...