Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large and noteworthy cast, only Bogarde and Philippe Noiret (as a diplomatic attache) manage to survive the confusion with any dignity at all. Worse, there is absolutely no trace of Alexandria itself, that city Durrell called "the wine press of love." Fox dispatched a second-string camera crew for a brisk six weeks' worth of location filming, but Cukor shot most of the picture at home in California-on a set that conjured up visions of Sidney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre North African thrillers. The ersatz locale is painfully obvious. "Justine," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the spirit of Alexandria, sensual...
...greats as Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers-Where's Charley (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). Based on Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls was Loesser's masterpiece; he ran a perfect string of straight sevens with the hottest musical dice Broadway had seen in years...
...valuable as substance. The move betokened American willingness to try to reduce tensions with the Chinese, an effort pleasing to many of the U.S.'s Asian allies. Equally important, it let the Soviet Union know that, as one State Department official put it, "there is a second string to our fiddle." Russia fears a Sino-American rapprochement. At the same time, it has seemed in some instances recently that Washington was teaming with Moscow against Peking. Last week's mild overture toward China was obviously intended to lend a little leverage to U.S. negotiators by demonstrating that...
...year." Demand for business loans has begun to taper. The Federal Reserve Board last week announced that loans at major banks declined in July for two weeks, dropping by $262 million to $78.3 billion. One consequence is that interest rates are beginning to lessen, if ever so slightly. A string of three big recent bond issues -Weyerhaeuser, National Cash and Dow Chemical-all sold at successively lower yields, ranging downward from...
...Mozart String Quintet in G Minor K. 516 followed Schumann and was a big improvement. The addition of Isidore Cohen, who played well all evening, bolstered the violin sound immensely and the two violinists were very competent. Again, however, the piece got off to a slow start. An opening Allegro, thick in texture but still meant to move along easily and swiftly, was too slow. Furthermore the group slowed down perceptibly toward the end of the movement, as much as six to twelve beats a second. Then, as if the Schumann had not sufficiently apprized the audience of a certain...