Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dumped. Despite his exalted ranking, Takamiyama still has a lot to learn about technique, as his match with Taiho proved. Following sumo's ancient ritual, the two giants prepared for battle -rinsing their mouths with water to purify their souls, stamping their feet to frighten away evil spirits, tossing handfuls of salt to sanctify the dirt ring, holding out their arms to show that they had no concealed weapons. After that, they simply stared at each other for several minutes. Only then, with a wave of his fan, did the referee signal for the fight to begin...
...expend a lot of effort promoting tourism, the 400 airline executives attending the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting in Cannes have proved to be poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
...Millions has a bit of the wryness, a lot of closeups-and a welcome touch of humor besides. Peter Ustinov, who co-authored the script with Ira Wallach, plays Marcus Pendleton, a waddling con man with a surefire scheme" to steal millions by zonking a mammoth computer. He opens up storefront offices all over Europe and has the rigged machine send him large monthly checks. After seeding millions away all over the Continent, Marcus settles down to a life of financial bliss with his scatterbrained secretary (Maggie Smith) who imperils the whole operation by accidentally discovering large amounts of foreign...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...
...Much earlier, asked if he knew a lot about poisons, he replied, "Not as much as I'd like...