Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week to approving cheers was an Italian film called Smog, the first Italian feature film ever made on location in the U.S. Its message seems to be that people who live in glass houses are throwing their lives away, and the film itself throws quite a few rocks smack through the glassy eyes of Hollywood. It is about as focused as the rest of the world generally appears through the lenses of Hollywood, and is thus fine revenge as well as funny satire...
Seldom had Moscow witnessed such a display of public affection. An exultant Nikita Khrushchev kissed both spacemen smack on the lips, followed in turn by Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and other members of the Presidium, as well as Russia's two previous cosmonauts, Ma jor Yuri Gagarin and Major Gherman Titov. As young women pelted them with flowers, the "Heavenly Twins," as the So viet press dubbed the cosmonauts, then hugged and embraced their families. The band of the Moscow garrison played the Soviet national anthem, punctuated by a 2 1 -gun salute. On the 20-mile trip from...
...cans of beer. "To give one can of beer to 1,000 people is not nearly as much fun as giving 1,000 cans of beer to one guy," writes Veeck. "You give 1,000 people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it." In St. Louis, Veeck enraged baseball purists by sending Midget (3 ft. 7 in.) Eddie Gaedel up to bat against...
...owns one of England's more romantic collections. He inherited more than 90 paintings that hang helter-skelter in ill-lit confusion in the library and the drafty halls of Downton Castle. Ten years ago, the major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says the major) Rubens' portrait of Grotius ("Actually, they tell me now it may be a Van Dyck...
Chicanery? Last week Vienna art circles were in a quandary about the Verlon-Verkauf affair. The critics-including Dr. Hofmann-did not withdraw their praise for the collages, but Verkauf's elaborate hoax did seem to smack of chicanery. If Painter X can promote himself under the name of Dealer Y, Dr. Hofmann pointed out, he could carry the process one step farther and create a demand for Painter X by buying him under the name of Collector Z. Says Hofmann: "The unknown painter who buys his own works at auction to increase their value is not unknown...