Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legerdemain with Professor Dai Vernon at the Magic Castle. In three months, he had mastered the trade of the tricks. Two producers caught his act in Toronto and built a hit around him. Today, with a combination of optical illusions, paraphernalia and misdirection, Henning holds audiences in the palm of his sleight of hand...
...Bargain Hunters: The Breakers, Palm Beach's answer to Rome's Villa Medici, offers doubles in the off season at $24 a day (winter price...
...Well Spent Life. In Cambridge, nowadays, you can read "cult film" as "pure fantasy." When the rage is not happy lunatics, and it always is, it's the area's other cult film, The Harder They Come--escapism pure and simple. Not to decry the nice visuals (some handsomes, palm trees, white sand) and the tunes (however thin the line between reggae and bubble gum), anything anyone says about the movie's political content is laughable: the only idea embodied by Jimmy Cliff is something along the lines of "You Can Get It If You Really Want (but you must...
...National Republican Guard, a paramilitary police force. In 1968 he was sent back to Africa as commander in chief and military governor of the territory of Portuguese Guinea, where he served until he returned to Lisbon last summer to receive the Order of the Tower and the Sword with Palm, Portugal's highest military honor, and to become deputy chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a post set up specially...
...terrible weeks in 1971, Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, must have felt like the young Louis XIV when peasants burst into his Palais Royal bedroom demanding bread. At the gates of Annenberg's 220-acre estate in Palm Springs, Calif, were 15 noisy pickets throwing beer cans into the shrubbery and indulging in a few well-chosen oaths. The greensmen hired to tend Annenberg's 18-hole golf course were demanding a pay hike. Annenberg took them to court for violating his right to privacy. Last week the California appellate court...