Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high can you stoop?" Elsa Maxwell: "The oldest woman still subsisting on a scholarship." Zsa Zsa Gabor: "Does social work among the rich." As for himself, lamented Levant: "They asked me to be on This Is Your Life, but they couldn't find one friend...
Because of the expense, the biggest benefits of automation have largely been restricted to rich companies-until now. Last week California's Topp Industries announced a breakthrough in automation that will bring savings in cost and increased efficiency to small plants. Name of the new device: the Micro-Path Control System...
...Mouth (Lopert; United Artists). The stream of consciousness, as it comes boiling out of Gulley Jimson, the painter hero of the late Joyce Cary's masterpiece of monologue, is a wizard's brew-wine of genius mixed with just plain sewerage-that may be too rich for the average moviegoer's blood. Cary in his book (TIME, Feb. 6. 1950) displayed the Irish talent for tirade in formidable measure, and he revealed a teeming and generous vision of life, a Rabelaisian sense of comedy. To make a straight commercial movie out of such a vital, abundant creation...
...funniest half-hours he has ever played. When the millionaire takes a trip to Jamaica, Gulley without so much as a by-your-leave moves into his apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation of their home-not to mention the wall, which looks as though it had been struck...
...Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy deserts the revolutionary game for a job in a travel agency engaged in selling Ireland's hobnailed charms to rich and innocent Americans...