Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smelling the Public. Kerkorian hopes that Aubrey, whom he met for the first time only two weeks ago, can put new vigor into the ailing MGM lion. Kerkorian wanted a show business veteran to replace financial man Polk, but his choice for the presidency, Herb Jaffe, a vice president of United Artists, turned the job down. Gregson Bautzer, the Los Angeles socialite lawyer who counts both Kerkorian and Aubrey among his clients, introduced the two men at the Beverly Hilton and recommended Aubrey for the job. Bautzer's sales pitch: "Jim Aubrey has a real good sense of smell...
...matter in question is The Seven Minutes, a novel that records the thoughts of a woman while she is enjoying intercourse. "Filth!" cry the D.A., the church and civilian smut-busters. "Art," intones the defense and assorted experts. "Shame," says the reader who recognizes that Wallace fails to show an awareness of the 1966 Supreme Court ruling on Fanny Hill. The decision stated that a book offending community standards could be proscribed only if it was found to be "utterly without redeeming social value." Had Wallace let this fact into his fabrication, the case of The Seven Minutes would have...
...fact. I feel damn outraged when I ask the policy-makers to take the thumbscrews off those employees who show humane though economically impractical (at the risk of being redundant) concern for the people they serve...
...prints describes the techniques Rembrandt used to create his shadowy imagery. He juggled lines - etched, and engraved - according to what he drew, sometimes combining all three in one print. He worked the delicately teethed lines into the most careful description-to weave the wrinkles in a face or show the heaviness of a drapery. He employed rougher drypoint or engraved lines for bolder cuts...
...HARPO," the Harvard Producing Organization, gave its first show last night. It is a collection of one act farces on married life, wedded together as Married Alice. All three are superbly done...