Word: tors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention when John D. Rockefeller Jr returned from France in 1935 with a haphazard collection of photographs of medieval works that an agent had wished on him in Paris. In those days The Cloisters, Rockefeller's great gift to the Met, had not yet been built, but plans tor it were nearly complete. It was to be, and now is, a museum overlooking the Hudson River from a ridge at Manhattan's northern tip, a building designed in such a way that parts of antique castles churches and monasteries could be incorporated into it. Among the photographs that...
...pulled Fidel Castro's beard with more regularity than Miami Adman Erwin Harris, 39, who is still trying to collect tor an advertising campaign he ran for the Cuban Tourist Commission in 1959-60. Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released...
...York's Westchester County, where the only certainties are debt and taxes. Peaceable Lane is a newly planted colony of middle-class status creepers whose houses cost $30,000. "You can get some pretty odd ones at those prices," says a big-rich snob from nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite who rarely pool anything beyond the cars with which the wives chauffeur the kids to school...
After the war, Camus spent more than a decade as "France's best assistant direc tor" before he made it on his own with Black Orpheus. Now, with the completion of Pioneers, it has occurred to him somehow that love should be the great theme of his life, and he is swept away on plans to produce an unending series of love films-carnal and spiritual, full-length and short-for TV. straight cinema, schoolrooms, garden clubs, anyone who wants to hear the gospel of human affection and tenderness. Says he: "I will become the colossus of love...
...Angel Wore Red (Titanus-Specta-tor; MGM) is a turbid Kleenex-sopper about an unfrocked priest (Dirk Bogarde) and a cabaret girl (Ava Gardner) who is frocked, but just barely. Bogarde and Gardner fall into intimate clutch during one of the first air raids of the Spanish Civil War. That very morning Bogarde had left the church because its hierarchy sympathized with Francisco Franco's rebels. But after the raid, in the kind of irony that cuts like a rubber dagger, he is hunted down by a mob of enraged Loyalists who have convinced themselves that the city...