Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco office cluttered with autographed photos of show business stars, boxes of spare Homburgs, and a "money tree" decorated with dollars, Real Estate Tycoon Louis Robert Lurie, 73, presides over his many business interests. They span movies ("I made all the early Tarzan pictures") to mining ("My record is perfect-I've lost every cent I ever invested"). He is also a lucky angel, having bankrolled such Broadway hits as Song of Norway and Pajama Game. But he made his fortune-estimated at more than $50 million-in buildings. He has built 226 of them, owns two dozen large...
...black masses into new government villages offering schools, churches, and medical facilities previously unavailable to them. Though the program is showing results, it involves a slow, laborious and wary process. Usually the maneuver begins with a Portuguese army patrol finding a message in pidgin Portuguese tacked to a tree by some natives asking food or a bag of salt. The provisions are left as requested, plus a note offering safe-conduct to a resettlement village. In this way, some 250,000 Africans have so far been moved into such centers...
...major demands that Blasi surrender his fort. But pride is Blasi's stand-in for honor, and he demands some elaborate Italian form of face-saving military etiquette. Nonsense, says Niven, holding out for unconditional surrender. While the British major is practicing imaginary golf strokes with a curved tree branch, the entire Italian garrison bolts through the fort's rear gate. Before long, the two commanders get their troops mutually marooned on an island, and mutually ambushed by hostile Africans. The film's humanistic argument, never preachy and never entirely convincing, is that folly brings...
Prophet Moses has a lamentable weakness for nubile girls, and his first mission fails when he tries to ascend to heaven from the top of a breadfruit tree. Instead he falls to earth, breaks his leg, and is carted off to the insane asylum...
Canal Fulton, Ohio, Summer Arena: The deliciously rubber-faced Imogene Coca reposes Under the Sycamore Tree...