Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength of his Goldfinger portrayal. Though his international following dates only from that role, the 52-year-old Frobe has some 80 film credits, five acting awards, and an infinite range-from the frightening psychopath in It Happened in Broad Daylight to the goatish dupe in Banana Peel to, most recently, the slapstick Kraut in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...
...Royal Hunt of the Sun, by Peter Shaffer. A huge heraldic signet bearing a black cross is pinned with ascetic severity to the rear wall of the stage. Suddenly, it begins to open like secret paneling. Triangular sections peel back, and tongues of gold lick the surrounding dark. In the center of the blazing disk, like a jeweled idol released from a total eclipse, stands the sun god, the Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem...
...known Reds. Marines were waiting when two companies of Communists mounted a counterattack last June. After a three-hour fight, the Reds withdrew, leaving eight dead. Clement's men have also adapted to the technique of ambush; when his squads go off on patrol, a few men often peel off to remain as long as three days staked out on bug-ridden back-country trails. So far, they have killed as many as eight Communists a night by using such tactics. "We've licked the Viet Cong because we've surprised them more than they have...
...Norjac Co. has done so well with its electric bread and plate warmers that it has just introduced a $12.95 electric sweater dryer. Dominion has brought out a manicure set and Osrow a refrigerator defroster. The housewife can also get small appliances to buff floors, mash potatoes, peel carrots, and warm her towels. The greatest successes have been the electric toothbrushes and slicing knives. Like many other of the new appliances, the toothbrush was first dismissed as a gimmick when Olin Mathieson's Squibb Division introduced it in 1960. It has become such a big seller-sales this year...
PUBLIC OPINION, said Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, "is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs." If Peel had such low regard for public opinion, it is easy to imagine how he would have felt about "world opinion." He would have denied that any such thing existed, or, if it did exist, that it had any business interfering with the sovereign actions of the British Empire...