Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some faults. It was written and directed by a 27-year-old new-comer with complete control of his film, it has a uniformly fine cast, and the Lovin' Spoonful sing the background music, but the movie is not a stunning click-your-heels-in-the-air success. It's just a fresh, fast, clever movie...
...years, spade-bearded Ulbricht has worked to prove this hope wrong by trying to establish his bailiwick not only as a separate German state but as a nation distinct from West Germany in as many ways as possible. The fact is that he is beginning to have some success. Last week, as East Germany prepared for this month's quadrennial Socialist Unity Party Congress-which will be graced by the presence of none other than Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev-banners from the Baltic isles to the dour villages of Saxony proclaimed that "nothing unites us with imperialist West...
...York and persuaded fashion designers to use them. He went back to Thailand, started his business with $700 and contracted with the dying silk industry, whose 200 scattered weavers worked on ancient handlooms, to turn out fine silks that he stamped in brilliant colors and designs. His success inspired some 130 competitors, eventually produced thousands of jobs for the Thais...
Perhaps in hopes of duplicating Truman Capote's success with In Cold Blood, the London Sunday Telegraph last year sent Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, the wife of C. P. Snow, to cover the most gruesome murder trial in recent British history. The "Moors Case," as it came to be known (TIME, May 13), combined ancient evils with modern technology: murder and perversion were recorded on film and tape so that the killers could relive their crimes. Unlike Capote, Lady Snow flinched in the face of evil. This book is the reflexive-and reflective-result...
...Nicolette herself became an artist, because "art" was the only thing she could do, and married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good luck or good sense to pick a nonflamboyant type with solid talent who achieved a modest success as a portrait painter, with no impulse to live it up, sleep around or hurl defiance at the bourgeoisie who bought his pictures...