Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of Christians with rabble-rousing and tricks; Paul Newman as Basil, a pagan silversmith who designs a frame for the cup; Virginia Mayo, the sorcerer's apprentice, who divides her time between dressing up the boss's act and running up Basil's metabolism; and Pier Angeli, a wistful, loving Christian who finally wins Basil for herself...
...deep religious feeling and incredible brutality could exist side by side. In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry of a medieval society so successfully that most people will be happy to look at it - and even hap pier never to have been part...
...thick-weather possibility: when the pilot mistakes the slope-line lights for the lights outlining the runway. Many pilots have had this illusion and have pulled up just before landing on water or broken ground. The Italian captain may have made this mistake and actually landed on the pier that carries the lights...
...show the variety of its production, Vickers' brass like to describe a trip to an imaginary city: the visitor arrives aboard a huge ocean liner built by Vickers' shipbuilding division, steams into a harbor past Vickers fishing vessels and ties up at a pier near a Vickers drydock. Boarding a Vickers-made bus (now running in cities from Cairo to Montevideo), the sightseer travels past rows of cement kilns made by Vickers, past Vickers oil-storage tanks, Vickers rubber plants, steel mills, printing plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers...
Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 25, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Marie Pier-angeli), 22, elfin-faced, Italian-born cinemactress; in St. Timothy's Roman Catholic Church, in Hollywood...