Word: levante
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...attracted a great deal of unwarranted attention, the five Democrats and one Republican no longer appeared to be a shrewd bunch of legislators honing their perceptions of the region. In stead, they stood revealed as a coterie of naive bumblers wandering helplessly among the battle-hardened chieftains of the Levant. A grand master of Middle East intrigue, P.L.O...
...there will be the true sovereign of the world. Consequently, excite continual wars, not only in Turkey but in Persia. Establish dockyards on the Black Sea . . . In the decadence of Persia, penetrate as far as the Persian Gulf, re-establish if it be possible the ancient commerce with the Levant, advance as far as India, which is the depot of the world. Arrived at this point, we shall no longer have need of England's gold." Or, one might add today, of anyone else...
...match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette Fabray star as two writers who carry on like--who else? Comden and Green...
...appears before the Avedon camera gets a guarantee of sympathetic treatment. Ezra Pound is captured as a tortured soul. Avedon is gentle with Marilyn Monroe, but Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council to Saigon (TIME, April 21) during the Viet Nam War (including General Creighton W. Abrams and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker) can be used as a Rorschach test, asking the viewer to make a judgment of the members' guilt or innocence...
...American in Paris. The famous musical made by Vincents Minelli in 1951, and winner of five Academy Awards. Gershwin music, Lerner screenplay, and performance by Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant and Nina Fochs. I find it a little overdone, but some people are into this sort of thing...