Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shops and offices. Wall posters criticize laggard factory managers and party officials, women's high heels and short dresses, and everyone who dodges early-morning gymnasium classes. Like a propaganda tableau out of Red China, party members and intellectuals gather in the fields against a majestic background of snow-capped mountains, reading Hoxha's thoughts to the toiling farmers and spurring them on to greater productivity. Other workers trudge along country roads to rifle practice with flowers sticking out of the muzzles of their guns...
...Linda stages large dinner parties, stalks studio executives day and night. After she cornered Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans last month, she came away with a four-picture contract, beginning at $7,500 for a week's work in The President's Analyst. Romina was to portray Snow White, a teeny-bopper who gets seduced by James Coburn. "That's more money than Ty was making when he was tops at Fox!" exulted Linda. "That's the cocktail...
Kissing Lessons. If no more picture contracts are forthcoming, the dynamic duo may return to their home in Rome. There, Romina's reputation as an ingenue is less than snow white. Two years ago, when the De Laurentiis studio gave Romina the role of a child bride in Home Life, Italian Style, Linda swooped in and demanded "American prices" because "Romina is Romina." Romina's success in the picture led to another nymphet role in How I Learned to Love Women, in which, says Linda, "she absolutely wiped the screen with her leading man." And, she adds proudly...
...Quarter-tone music has a tremendous potential," says George Pappastavrou, one of the pianists and organizers of the concert. "The thing seems to be snow balling." Yet Ives predicted more than 40 years ago that it might be centuries before composers plumbed the quarter-tone system-or listeners' ears got accustomed to it. Meantime, he warned: "To go to extremes in anything is an old-fashioned habit...
CANADIAN histories dutifully record the glum surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in the Western world, a longstanding wonder and delight to analysts of various national psyches. If the U.S. worries about not being liked abroad, Canada worries about not liking itself at home. Hugh MacLennan, one of the country's best-known novelists, writes wryly: "If it be true that...