Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghosts of West Germany's Nazi past have an embarrassing way of cropping up to haunt officials in high places. Often they are gleefully generated, replete with whiffs of Zyklon B gas and the ring of SS jack boots, by East Germany's Communist propagandists, who hold the most comprehensive set of Third Reich records. Frequently the Bonn government ignores the East German charges-and rightly so, for many of them are phony. But now and then, Bonn has been guilty of undue laxity. Not so last week, when two more ghosts loomed up from history. This time...
...Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march to the podium on his reading tours. It becomes the jabbing dance of the prize ring with Caitlin (Kate Reid), his wife and scarring partner, as their savage domestic infighting vividly creates the image of a marriage where words not only lead to blows but are blows. Kate Reid is shatteringly good in portraying the kind of woman who marries her author...
...year will open stores in Madrid and Barcelona, use Spain as a wedge into the Common Market, where U.S.-style mail-ordering is a postwar phenomenon. Such moves delight Chairman Cushman, whose pleasures seem to be simple. Says he: "I love to hear the sound of the cash register ringing." If projections hold true, Sears's registers will ring to the tune of $6 billion within three years...
...average Sears dress, once tagged at $4.98, now costs $15.98. Sears also stresses bikinis and Lilly Daché hats, and its 51-lb., 1,716-page spring catalogue, now being distributed to 10 million customers, has a suave honey-blonde model on the cover, with a $6,500 diamond ring and luxurious mink stoles inside. Sears continues its recent penchant for stocking original art, $3,000 outboard motorboats and gold-plated bathroom fixtures...
Soon the President and his top brass are noodling around a vast baize table at the Pentagon. Here, Sellers and George C. Scott ring in deftly shaped performances. As General "Buck" Turgidson, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Scott is the brash, boyish paradigm of technological know-how, whether he is contemplating megadeaths ("I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed") or the superstructure of his bikini-clad secretary Tracy Reed, a Miss Foreign Affairs with no top secrets...