Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest of plot. A soldier is escaping across the river; a man guns him in the back. We don't see a brisk wound-writhe-tumble sequence, then cut to the next scene. We watch the fall, the body drifting in the river, the horse vaguely turning toward shore. All at a distance. No sudden tight thrill, just cool death...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dinah Shore taped two shows on her recent trip to Russia. The first one features the Moscow State Circus, with Popov the clown, the Bubnov aerialists and the Kantemirov daredevil horseback riders...
...Boston and a wide swath of eastern New England, it was like the return of a nightmare. From the North Shore to the South Shore, Worcester to Charlestown, doors slammed shut, and women scurried furtively along cold, windswept streets. Husbands hurried home to be with their wives, and there was a run on locks-though, as authorities dourly admitted, the man they were after could open just about any lock in existence. Albert DeSalvo, 35, the self-confessed "Boston Strangler" and sexual felon, had escaped...
...with Burgess' assurance that Joyce was not a deliberate mystifier but "an intellectually superior writer unwilling to compromise with subject matter of great complexity," the reader is presumably in shape to cope with the first sentence of Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind...
...subsidiary called Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., which, with headquarters in Manhattan's Pan Am Building and branches in eight other cities, handled some $420 million in trade during its first six months alone. For years, a significant chunk of Mitsui's business has come from "off shore trading" deals involving the U.S. and countries other than Japan. In one case, Mitsui shipped U.S. machinery to Brazil, which in turn sent coffee to Sweden, which for its part exported glassware to the U.S. Because Japanese trading companies are so well suited for such complicated transactions, the president of Mitsui...