Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On New York's busy over-the-counter market, the stock of the obscure Oreclone Concentrating Corp., holder of a process of treating low-grade iron ores to make them commercially usable, created a sensation. Issued last fall at $3 a share, the stock bounded to $30. But three...
Our Man in Havana (Kingsmead; Columbia), Carol Reed's screen version of Graham Greene's bestselling thriller, starts out like a conventional Alec Guinness comedy, a wonderfully silly spoof of a spy thriller. But before long, the attentive spectator will understand that Greene, Reed, Guinness & Co. are tickling...
Triston and Isolde, of all works, is the biggest hit at the Metropolitan Opera. The reason for this sensation is the Widely publicized and truly splendid performance of the statuesque (and this is not intended as a euphemism for "fat") Swedish dramatic soprano, Birgit Nilsson, whose Isolde was accorded a...
Understandably enough, Harvard wishes to hold itself high above the herd--to appear in print only at birth, death, and marriage, as it were--but, like the lady said, times have changed. Perhaps Harvard students need to enjoy the sensation of the intellectually competitive experience that "College Bowl affords, in...