Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strong Sentiment. In Syracuse, N.Y., after a milk bottle crashed through his $175 picture window, George Russo read the note inside: "Couldn't stop to say hello, so greetings anyway...
...amount of campaign window dressing," Collins lashed out, "no amount of political endorsement by respectable names--who themselves may have been misled or incompletely informed--no amount of glib talk by college professors as advisers, and no amount of pretense can alter to any degree, or for a single moment, the true nature of a candidate's background...
Ever since he reluctantly divorced Queen Soraya in 1958, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, has been window-shopping through Europe. In his search for a new bride who would present him with a son and heir, the Shah's wandering eye was caught by Italy's pretty Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, 19. But the Vatican, all Italy, and the girl herself proved unalterably opposed to the marriage. Last week his capital of Teheran was alive with signs that the Shah had found both happiness and the bride he wanted in his own country...
...really fine pathos on older, flickering, brownish black-and-white film. Blind street singers grind out a Weill-ish ballad, one playing a hand organ, the other tapping a drum with sticks taped to his elbows. A dying consumptive girl cries out in fear of the whiteness of the window in the early twilight. But, even though the color is muted in these scenes, it protrudes everywhere; and the directing seems to feel obligated to follow the color--to feel obligated to keep everything clean and bright, to remain aloof, to treat the pathos as though it were an awkward...
...estimate, he made $7,000,000 in movies ("just for swinging a sword, sitting on a horse and yelling, 'Charge!' "), and riotously squandered it as it came. The greatest concession he made to convention was to marry three times, and each union went out the window along with his roving eye. His taste for young flesh led to three statutory rape scandals, plus a juicy paternity suit-but the older he got, the more he seemed a cardboard sinner. Finally a bloated travesty of his younger self, he was typecast in his last three films as a drunk...