Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). U.S. premiere of a highly praised Russian film, The Lady with the Dog (1962), adapted from Anton Chekhov's short story...
BEDAZZLED. Two members of the wily Beyond the Fringe foursome play Faust and loose with an old theme as a meek short-order cook (Dudley Moore) sells his soul to the Devil (Peter Cook) in return for seven wishes...
...happens, Pusey's relief at finding two new deans was short-lived. With the resignation last week of John Coolidge as director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, he must get back on the telephone, scan the country, solicit letters of recommendation for a man to head the country's best university museum...
...prisoner in the dock at the Palais de Justice in Nice last week was short, pudgy, somewhat shopworn and 50. He looked, as the presiding judge himself remarked, exactly like a smalltown butter-and-cheese merchant. But there was nothing, absolutely nothing, small-time about Pierre Aunay. Standing trial on eight separate charges-ranging from jail breaking to cashing phony money orders-Aunay pleaded innocent on all counts. He was, he explained to the court, far too big a crook to have committed such insignificant crimes and far too slick a crook to be caught for the crimes...
...Xipe Totec, Our Lord of the Flayed Hide. Xipe Totec is the Mexican god of newly planted seed and of penitential torture. Like the maize seed that loses its husk as it begins to sprout, Xipe Totec gave food to mankind by having himself skinned alive. .In short, Xipe is an Aztec Christ-figure. Messaee: someone always has to be sacrificed before man can move to an other level of awareness...