Word: scenically
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...store while a gaggle of tourists poked through the merchandise. But next day, both Senta and her customers were gone. They were all players in David Wolper's new film, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, which travels across Europe by bus, flashing past such scenic beauties as Miss Berger, Virna Lisi, Anita Ekberg, Catherine Spaak, Joan Collins and Elsa Martinelli. All in all, quite a package for the tour...
...have lost out to the principle of "eminent domain," which allows the state to acquire private property in the interests of the public good. But Dennison claimed that in addition to compensation for the land itself, the state should pay him for loss of privacy and deterioration of his scenic view. He also tried a more unusual tack. He demanded added damages for the nuisance caused by the traffic noises at his doorstep. Impressed by his arguments, a lower court awarded him $37,000. The state appealed. Dennison, it said, deserved less money because there was no law that allowed...
Then it was back to New York to begin his $60,000-$75,000 annual prac tice of what he calls "a more personal type of journalism." His basic reportonal posture he describes as "healthily jaundiced." "If someone wants something done on the scenic wonders of the United States," Newman says wryly 'he wouldn't call on me. I am not very good at expressing awe." That goes for television itself. When he isn't first-nightmg or anchoring an NBC show Newman catches up with his reading' I m not entertained," he says, "by television...
...Sunday spin in the country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color...
...scenic result of that titanic clash was a novelty and a rarity. The actor emerged as Bird Lahr and Aristophanes authored a brand-new play: The Bert. After all, this is the only process by which drama survives through the ages. Its apparently dead body has to be revived by a great actor's live heart...