Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNGLE BOOK. This animated version of the children's classic may be a perverse introduction to Rudyard Kipling, but it is a nice way to remember the late Walt Disney; it is the last film he personally supervised...
...much too nice to rearrange...
...prisoner in the dock at the Palais de Justice in Nice last week was short, pudgy, somewhat shopworn and 50. He looked, as the presiding judge himself remarked, exactly like a smalltown butter-and-cheese merchant. But there was nothing, absolutely nothing, small-time about Pierre Aunay. Standing trial on eight separate charges-ranging from jail breaking to cashing phony money orders-Aunay pleaded innocent on all counts. He was, he explained to the court, far too big a crook to have committed such insignificant crimes and far too slick a crook to be caught for the crimes...
...away in 1962 for a brief term in Paris' Fresnes Prison, he wangled a job in the prison purchasing office, and whiled away his sentence forging $120,000 worth of payment orders for goods the prison never received. During a three-year term for armed robbery in Nice, he suffered a convenient heart attack and wound up living it up in the prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie gras party for the whole hospital staff. Then, one night, he staged an equally...
...children (a daughter Zarina, now 9, and a son Merwan, 7). Zarin looked in occasionally, then more often. In 1966 Zubin, who was rehearsing the Israel Philharmonic in Haifa, suddenly announced that he wanted to dedicate the concert to his brother, who was "getting married to a very nice girl." To whom? "To my former wife," Mehta replied. Nowadays, whenever he is in Montreal, he stays with Zarin, Carmen and the children-including now Zarin's daughter, four-month-old Rohanna -and everything seems friendly...