Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market this year is also loaded with gifts for those who are on the make for the unusual. Neiman's, whose glamour item last year was His and Her airplanes, this year is featuring an ermine bathrobe ($6,975), and Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston has a nice diamond and emerald necklace for $275,000. An Albuquerque blood bank is selling a $5 gift certificate that is good for all the emergency transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking...
Sunday in New York, by Norman Krasna. has as its heroine an unhip news-chick who is 22 and given to wondering out loud whether she should give up her virginity. The chick (Pat Stanley) is assured by her air pilot brother (Conrad Janis) that nice girls shouldn't. Her millionaire boy friend walks out on her, contending that she should. Riding a Manhattan Fifth Avenue bus and nursing the blues, she hooks another eligible male (Robert Redford) - hooks him literally, with a barbed dress catch that rips out his breast pocket. They share a snack and a movie...
...Paris turned Capote's delicate tummy. "I hate it. Last year I drove 150 miles to avoid even the outskirts. The Parisians didn't like me, and I didn't like the Parisians. Then I discovered the Parisians hate everybody, including each other. All the nice people you meet in Paris want to kill themselves, and the rest ought...
...would be nice if the same could be said for Arthur D. Hellman's piece on bomb shelters and Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s critique of the Bender Report. Both articles contain much good research and many perceptive thoughts. But lapses in writing and organization are their undoing. Only the most dedicated reader will follow Mr. Hellman's string of quotations to the end. And those who are initially impressed (as I was) with many of Mr Babe's observations will be disappointed to see him overcome by inarticulateness when he tries to formulate conclusions from them...
Bach's Sonata No. 3 in E major for violin and klavier opened the program. In the classic manner, the gamba, with its forest of tuning pegs, doubled the continuo of the harpsichord. The trio maintained a nice balance; its members played to each other. But slippery intonation and lack of clarity marred the violin's performance, and the harpsichord indulged in unjustified rubatos and changes of tempi...