Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STEAL A MILLION. A clever museum heist is pulled off with slick, professional comedy by Audrey Hepburn and her second-story pal, Peter O'Toole...
...woman capable of physical desire looks a bit forced since Actress Jones plays her from the start as a very turned-on lady. Jennifer, now 47, even goes at her gardening with a provocative air, tugging at her blouse front while she breathlessly inquires of her son's pal: "Ever been to Corsica? The sun beats on you like a hammer . . . delicious, frightening." Her ultimate surrender proceeds, posture by posture, through moments of squeamish abandon on a dance floor to a New Year's eve when she sweeps downstairs in a feathery ball dress to find the narrow...
...competing systems are France's SECAM (for Séquence de Couleurs avec Mémoire-color sequence with memory) and West Germany's PAL (for phase alternating line). They are, of course, incompatible...
...ahead with SECAM and nine East European Communist nations promptly fell into line. At an Oslo meeting of the International Consultative Conference on Radio Communications last month, Greece and Monaco also opted for SECAM, giving it a 16-nation lineup. Twelve Western European countries, including the United Kingdom, chose PAL, while Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain remained undecided...
Neither SECAM nor PAL will be ready for any sort of full-scale operation until the fall of 1967. In fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...