Word: merlis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight weeks, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee has held hearings on organized crime. A parade of witnesses, many of them for- mer mobsters, testifying with immunity, have sketched the outlines of gambling, theft and corruption on which crime empires are built. Last week big Vinnie Teresa, a rotund (300 Ibs.) loan shark now serving concurrent prison terms for stealing securities and car theft, provided a Runyonesque retrospective of his life and crimes...
...hesitates to be philippic (thank you, Philip of Macedonia), but there is much that fails to mesmerize (see Mes-mer's magnetic theory). In contrast to her husband's illustrations, Nancy Sorel treats her subjects blandly. "Lord Cardigan (of sweater fame) took as his third wife the beautiful Adeline de Horsey. They lived happily together until he died at the age of 71 of injuries he received when he fell from his horse." Too bad as well that the writers bypass the kind of speculation that occurs to the reader immediately. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch might just...
...vengeance. When she becomes the mistress of a young artist (Franco Nero), Don Lope shouts in misery, "I prefer tragedy to ridicule . . ." The girl awards him both. Her flight with the artist is ended by a disease that costs her a leg. Convalescing in the house of her for mer guardian, Tristana hears Lope, stricken with a heart attack, rattling in his bed. She starts to call a doctor, then lowers the phone to its cradle...
...pround-to-air missiles, manned by 3.500 to 5.000 Soviet technicians. Six sites already surround the harbor of Alexandria. Six other sites encircle Cairo, and four more are a short distance away at Cairo West, where Russian forces have established their headquarters in a for mer British base. Four clusters of SA-3s protect the Aswan High Dam, two more are believed to be at Baltim on the Mediterranean coast, and others are at the Russian bases at Mansura and Inshahs. The number of SA3 sites, each with eight missiles and 100 to 150 men, may eventually reach about...
...Boulez, who will become music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1971, has been proving his point with a string of Debussy performances and recordings that are nothing less than revelatory. Without any loss of subtlety, he has brought Debussy out of the mists. His reading of La Mer shapes all the surge and ebb of the score into crystalline lines and proportions. He heightens the texture of L'apres-midi d'un faune by building a cunning pattern of contrasts in mood and dynamics. In the ballet score Jeux, Boulez delineates the surprising variety of rhythmic...