Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme, first elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks...
...spenders is already beginning to be heard again. No one is more sensitive to the charge than the President himself, who slipped a surprising pledge into his recent speech on the Berlin crisis: he will submit a balanced budget for the fiscal year beginning next July. Kennedy smudged this pleasant pecuniary painting somewhat by conceding that it might take a tax increase to balance the books...
Imitation Surf. With close harmony and wordless rhythm, Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross cushion Mary Kaye's wailing obbligato, producing a pleasant blend of sound that may sometimes suggest the Andrews sisters doing a Pepsodent commercial; but it is just the sort of thinkproof entertainment that gamblers crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into...
Surgeons have known for 400 years that patients who undergo amputations continue to have "sensations," ranging from a pleasant tingling to excruciating pain, in the limb that is no longer there. They have dubbed it "pain in the phantom limb." Now surgeons are coming around to the idea that the best way to exorcise many cases of phantom pain is by phantom exercise...
...Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem would be a "mandarin-like subject, whose face might not reveal his feelings.'' Instead, sketching his subject in the palace drawing room in Saigon, while Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow conducted his interview, Dobell found President Diem an animated, "rather pleasant and intense person,'' perhaps lacking in humor, with "a Father of His Country look.'' After making three sketches, the two shown here and the third that became the cover portrait, Dobell sat on a settee for three more hours, as Karnow's interview went...