Word: unpacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Under John Huston's shrewd direction, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton unpack their troubles at a seedy Mexican hotel in a drama that stirs the senses, persuades the mind, and sometimes touches the heart...
...Georgiev's case it seems to have been Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization speech to the 20th Soviet Party Congress. This so shook his ideological faith, Georgiev explained, "that I felt theoretically unstable." So unstable, said the prosecutor, that the defendant hardly had time to unpack his bags before he was in touch with a chap from the CIA. There followed a walk in Central Park, and instructions on the dos and don'ts of espionage. There was a spooky man named Anderson, whose name was really something else. Geogiev was supposed to have met him time...
...falsely labeled "raw gutta-percha"-a duty-free item. Hard-to-recognize electronic devices are classified as items simpler and cheaper; high-grade steel is listed as low-grade. "Many goods are thoroughly packed," says a badgered customs man, "and with great amounts coming through, we can't unpack everything...
...British universities, the new schools are opening as full-blown universities. Skirting wet cement and snarling bulldozers, a visitor at one raw campus last week felt "the kind of enthusiasm you find in an Israeli kibbutz. You want to pick up a shovel or roll up your sleeves and unpack books. It is all so unstuffy, informal and energetic that it seems downright un-English...
...furs, the public crowded into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week to hear a 72-year-old man play the piano. Artur Rubinstein was starting a marathon ten-concert series in which, as a gesture of gratitude to the public he "loves like a woman," he plans to unpack the most cherished contents of his "musical valise." The series will do more than demonstrate the impeccable artistry of the world's most legendary virtuoso. Like the late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects...