Word: ritifs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princely rogue (Richard Todd), his manner as cool as the Lagonda he drives, enters the villa and announces that he is her brother. He sports the right tattoo, recites her favorite rhyme, even knows how to mix the apéritif she guzzles before a swim. When she calls a friendly, reliable old uncle (Alexander Knox) to denounce the rascal, uncle celebrates his nephew's reincarnation. Then a couple of creepy, creeping servants jangle her nerves even more. Who is the hero? Is it the sad-mouthed police comisario (Herbert Lorn) who lurks in the shadows? Is there...
...calm, sunny afternoon in Algiers the terrace cafés were filled with shirt-sleeved apéritif drinkers, and families lingered in the palm-shaded parks. At the Casino de la Corniche, perched on a cliff overlooking the blue Mediterranean, teenagers danced to the rhythms of Lucky Starways and his orchestra. In a nightmare of sudden sight and sound-a shattering blast, the music stopped in midflight, the thunder of a heavy explosion -the peaceful picture was erased. It was a time bomb under the orchestra platform. In a flash the tea danqe became a scene of death...
...keys to their cells and were permitted to move about at will. Unexplained guests came and went. Rude prison fare was augmented with Epicurean delicacies. Many prison inmates began to take their breakfast in bed, and often, at the dinner hour, they wandered out for an apéritif in the village cafés. A crude guard who protested such goings-on was sternly reprimanded by Warden Billa. "These men," said the warden, "are intellectuals. This is a special case." To Billa himself, the prisoners returned kindness for kindness. One night, when two prisoners found Billa lying drunk...
...ritif. In Buffalo, N.Y., members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union gathered for a state convention, found that the mayor had just announced the celebration of National Wine Week...
...most discussed exhibition in Italy last week was of 94 landscapes and cityscapes signed "Francesco Torri." It was not the quality of the paintings that made talk, though they were pretty good. Unpretentious sketches of pleasant spots for a picnic or an apéritif, the canvases were simple in composition and glowing in color. They were the work of a man, one critic had averred, "who knows his trade...