Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film is hardly a cry in the wilderness for intemperance. It ends on a slight touch of sadness, with both men realizing that liquor provides only temporary escape from a world as dismal as Tigreville. But along the way, there are some wonderfully mad, hilarious sprees. Belmondo is particularly fine playing matador to a highway full of cars...
...imply that a Playboy reader must be of slight intelligence, a TIME reader, not only intelligent but so sex-informed that he is no longer curious-although your ingenuous habit of juxtaposing a couple's marriage date and the birth date of their first child seems to indicate that you have at least a passing interest...
...music student, Sarolta, who was 56 years his junior. She acted as intermediary and hostess for Kodály who, as the dean of European composers and Hungary's most revered citizen, received an endless stream of visitors in his Budapest apartment during his last years. A shy, slight, spade-bearded man with the face of an El Greco apostle, he admonished people to "go to the peasants. Hear them sing. You can't learn from musical scores only...
...carrier Enterprise by night and dropped mines to the bottom of the Song Ca and Kien Giang rivers. The U.S. uses several varieties of mines, which can be touched off variously by contact, by magnetic detection of a metal hull passing overhead, by sound, or even by the slight change in water pressure caused by any boat within range...
...night before the Princeton meet, Schollander had expressed a slight concern about its outcome. Straight through the dark passageway connecting the swimming locker room to the Yale training table, Schollander mentioned a few of the toughest Tigers but then smiled confidently as he thought of his own powerful team...