Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character of his heroine as he intends, Fellini overwhelms her, for the thousand-and-one-nights imagery he has flung pell-mell upon the screen seems organic only to his own turbulent imagination. Though Juliet of the Spirits offers bizarre and enticing spectacle, it is transparently a gaudy intellectual shell game that expends awesome amounts of energy to discover...
...auction's end, COMBO happily counted up the proceeds. They amounted to $230,000-enough to buy the symphony a portable acoustical shell, to finance an opera production of Faust, and to start construction on a new rehearsal hall for the Old Globe Theater...
...landed him in deep trouble with the fundamentalists back home. He smokes half-a-dozen long, thin, 25? Fiesta Brazil cigars every day; he even took to sipping a few watered-down bourbons each week. As a result, he has received quite a few "Brother Moyers" letters from hard-shell Baptists who have heard evil rumors of his dissolute ways. Only recently, he decided to give up drinking altogether-not only because of the furor but also to please his stern-principled parents. It was just as well, for he only recently brought a peptic ulcer under control. To keep...
...last week earned Cefis the compliments of Italian businessmen for consummating un buonissimo affare. Besides removing one of Esso's competitors and restoring the chain to private enterprise, the deal also gives Esso precious locations that it can utilize in its battle with leading British Petroleum and Shell...
...afternoon's final event, two Harvard eights came in second and third behind a high-stroking entry from Washington's Potomac Boat Club. The runnerup shell, composed mostly of junior aspirants for varsity seats, finished 32 seconds off Potomac's 15:48 mark. Harvard's second boat, made up of sophomores, completed the course five seconds later...