Word: recut
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...Arthur Vicars, fuss-budget guardian of the Hibernian sparklers. Between all-male orgies in the castle and AC-DC frolics at the maison of one Daisy Newman, the cash-strapped Englishmen cooked up a seemingly impossible scheme to spirit the gems to the Continent. There they were disassembled and recut. Another footnote: some of the stones could have been unwittingly reacquired by the royal family. Queen Elizabeth often wears a magnificent brooch containing at least a dozen white Brazilian diamonds that might once have belonged to her great-grandpa...
...worked with hard effort and a little magic, but something has gone terribly wrong. Director Minnelli's once wondrous alchemy turns everything to lead. The movie is disjointed, sappy, hysterical; and the actors, perhaps sensing trouble, press on with painful, overbearing desperation. American-International, the distributor, has substantially recut the movie, which is easy enough to believe. A Matter of Time does not look at all like a Minnelli movie. The fastidious craftsmanship that he has through the years expended even on the lowliest undertaking is nowhere in evidence. This movie cannot have been a happy occasion...
Herbert Gold, now 48, is sticking with the process to the bittersweet end. His story, Heart of the Artichoke (1951), with its rich portrait of the tough Cleveland grocer modeled on Gold's own father, is a classic of J.A. fiction. But by the time Gold recut his tale in Fathers (1967), the material had worn badly. In My Last Two Thousand Years, Gold drops all pretense of storytelling and joins the decolletage school of literary autobiography: revealing just enough to entice the reader into turning the pages, even after it becomes apparent that the author will never satisfactorily...
...Quagmires. Not only that, but many of the new groups are reaching back into the past for their material. Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys' Good Old Rock 'n' Roll is on the charts. Creedence Clearwater Revival (TIME, June 27) has recut Screaming Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You and Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly, and Bobby Vinton is redoing To Know Him Is to Love Him, Phil Specter's first hit, recorded originally in 1958 by the Teddy Bears...
...shown an alarming tendency to heel over in heavy weather. Hoping to correct it, Sir Frank Packer, head of the syndicate behind the Australian contender, ordered her 90-ft. aluminum mast stepped forward 19 in. Her rigging had to be reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...