Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosions in the ghetto will be met with an escalation of brutal repression. Though effective in presenting its message, it could have been done by a white cameraman sensitive to the subject. The film's rhythm, its irregularity notwithstanding, was not the prototype of a new concept. Its impact upon the audience was electric; but the film hardly represented a new genre of cinematography...
...there is Scott Nye. Whether he is called upon to impersonate a transvestite Ozzie Nelson, an hysterical Ronald Reagan, or a sexually incompetent David Eisenhower, Mr. Nye always disposes of his chores with a wild sense of reality--a comic precision that tells us he has seen where we are heading and has puked his guts out at the spectacle. He never fails to lift any segment he appears in; writer Eskow has got to raise the whole entertainment up to the standard this comedian sets...
Breakneck Pace. Almost daily, letters pour into his home at Matsumoto from men looking for "a girl as pure as the limpid waters in the brooks of the Japan alps" or a young lady "with the most charming eyes," and from girls seeking the "right boy." Ishizaka, who insists upon interviewing all candidates at their homes, works at a breakneck pace: he engineered a mate for the alpinist in only a week and found the necessary charming-eyed lovely in 24 hours. He never asks a fee, leaving that to the generosity of the persons concerned. The largest...
...Smothers Brothers are also delving into black humor on their own CBS program. The other week, Tommy Smothers, having invited his first Negro house guest, stumbled over whether to refer to him as a Negro, colored person or black. Finally, upon the guest's arrival, he stammered: "Hi, boy-er, I mean, Bill." When the visit ended, Tommy said, "I would really like to have you over more often." Bill exited with: "Well, that's mighty white...
Rounding a certain curve along the Appian Way, a modern traveler in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy easily imagines himself in the Middle Ages. On the hill opposite, like a romantic vision, sits an amphitheater of golden-tinted houses with red-tiled roofs rising row upon row to the double crown of a ducal palace and a Norman tower...