Word: nico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both companies could use a shot of some sort. The fifth-ranked U.S. to bacco company, Lorillard last year earned $29 million on sales of $510 million, but its profits have barely budged since the late 1950s, when its filter, Kent, stole the low-tar-and-nico-tine march on the industry. Chairman Manuel Yellen, 54, last year offered a new filter brand, True, both plain and mentholated; though True is highly successful so far, sales have just begun to make up for its heavy introductory costs in a market now choked with competition...
...Papin sisters, was assured of a favorable reception among the French avant-garde before the first frame of film began to roll through the camera. French intellectuals share a bizarre fixation for this particular crime; Genet, for example, based his play, The Maids, on it. As a result, Nico Papatakis, the director, may well have become too confident that every scene would have the emotional impact he intended. Unfortunately, they...
Ostensibly, the girls are pitiable embodiments of evil-monsters created by callousness, oppression, and the unnatural conditions of servitude. But Director Nico Papatakis and Scenarist Jean Vauthier twist this black theme into a cinema of absurdity that falls somewhere between the Marx Brothers and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In its liveliest moments, Les Abysses is unwittingly hilarious, an amateur Grand Guignol about a pair of sleazy, sullen chambermaids running amuck in Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress...
...conducting in Boston are being carried out on a number of campuses around the United States. Ordinarily S.C.T.C. representatives (usually students from last summer's trip) place en.all ads in college newspapers and sponsor meetings of interested people. A particularly industrious group on the West Coast elected a "Nico Travel 1963" and paraded her through downtown San Francisco in the back of a convertible...
...flat-footed with hands on one another's shoulders, or with arms raised and palms held flat. The legendary quality of the production was reflected in the bulrush-brown and sea-green jerkins and the heavy curled Grecian wigs of gleaming copper and grape designed by Greek Artist Nico Ghika...