Word: touts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Terry-Thomas has another film about to be released and a fourth scheduled. Making an appearance last week as a TV narrator, he injected some sly Saxon humor into an ABC documentary on gambling by extolling the outdoor life of the English racing tout: "Ah, the fine, crisp crinkle of pound notes in the clean air!" That was the real Terry-Thomas talking...
...Westmoreland is a very symbolic name, but remember that "Qui veut tout n'aura rien...
...Sound of Music, based on the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical comedy satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...
...surge in exports to Asia is largely the work of Australia's imaginative, Canberra-backed industrial and commercial associations and an army of tropical-suited Australian salesmen, who tout their goods in every Asian bazaar...
...slightest misstep: a melody will slip into passages that suggest fado or flamenco or Orthodox church music, then emerge again for a major-key resolution. Ferré has written some lovely love songs, but most of his ideas are tough, and he does not mince words-as in Monsieur Tout-Blanc, his pre-Deputy attack on the Pope...