Word: vals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retailing. Under Ferkauf's endless prodding, they began to move into the rich markets of suburbia, added to their basic stock in trade-appliances-most of the lines of merchandise that department stores carry. Korvette's also began to put out its own private labels, from Kor-Val vitamins to the booming XAM stereo hi-fi line (named in a backward way after Max, an alley cat of Ferkauf's acquaintance...
...Overshadowed most of the season by Philadelphia's towering Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who outscored him 4,029 to 1,436, Boston's lanky Bill Rus sell (TIME, Dec. 22) still won the Na tional Basketball Association's Most Val uable Player award for his sparkling de fensive play. As if to prove that the award was no fluke, Russell held Wilt to 35 points, scored 31 himself while the Eastern Champion Celtics romped over Chamberlain's Warriors, 129-114, in the N.B.A. playoffs...
...good to see that people are still concerned about mass values, and no doubt Val Guest (who directed the movie) and Wolf Mankowitz (who wrote it) are serious in attempting to deal with an unquestionably important problem. But in Expresso Bongo they are caught in the same mire as their main characters...
...young girls preening before the mirror. She feared that the impressionist obsession with light might be carried too far at the expense of form and harmony. The men who ate at her table sometimes chided her for her lack of adventure, but her nephew by marriage. Poet Paul Valéry, understood her better...
...Director Val Guest maintains a tone of acceptance of the hard world shown. There is no self-pity, no cry for quarter, only an unblinking look at the seamy, without comment...