Word: palmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simon Legree; Nancy is "Den Mother"; Joe Raff is "Tío Pepe"); Judy is "Kid Chocolate"; and Bone, naturally, is "Billy Bones." Home is headquarters, and headquarters is home: Villa Fielding, a $400,000 estate in the beach resort of Formentor, a 1½-hour drive across Majorca from Palma, the Spanish island's capital. The staff spends anywhere from two to seven months a year on the road, inspecting new hotels and restaurants, revisiting those already mentioned in the guide. When a trip is in the offing, Villa Fielding becomes a sort of MI 6 command post. A Hallwag highway...
...word "promising" is one of those faint praises damned by artists. Translated, it means "skip this and catch the next one." After all, Producer Charles Hirsch, 26, and Director Brian De Palma, 28, filmed Greetings in two weeks for $40,000. Because their exuberance and talent manifest themselves in frame after frame, their film has to be considered-well, promising...
Last night we reached Palma, Majorca, where the special attraction was a twelve-mile trip to the monastery at Valldemosa to eat a buffet dinner and hear a recital of Chopin's piano music by that handsome Frenchman Samson François. The monastery was cold and damp, but those clever people from the Renaissance brought along bundles of plaid blankets to cover everybody up. Poor Chopin. He lived in the monastery for two months with his, pardon me, mistress, George Sand, and they say that he nearly died of the chill. He could have used some of those...
...strains of a rending melody, she leaves her lover when she realizes that her scarlet past would shock his proper parents. Anna Moffo illuminates the most lyrical and substantial elements in her poignant role, and her characterization is nicely set off by Tenors Daniele Barioni and Piero de Palma...
...prearrangement, Tshombe, who sometimes dabbles in real estate, and his two guards climbed aboard in Palma for a 15-minute flight to the nearby isle of Iviza. There the group lunched at El Prenso restaurant on shrimp and broiled sea bass, looked over a possible building site on the coast, and then emplaned, supposedly for the return flight to Palma. The jet had barely completed the climb out from Iviza when Pilot David Taylor, 32, radioed to the Palma air-control center: "I am being forced at gunpoint by passengers to change route to Algeria." Less than an hour later...