Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have had possibilities, especially in a portrayal of the renewal of a wartorn psyche. Instead, Marcelle Maurette has choosen to emphasize the pure romance of the story and, even worse, clouds the romance with her allegorical reflections. For this reason, Anastasia is dramatic, but, on the whole, not worth the trouble...
...both parties took the loss. In Boston, however, CBS-affiliated WNAC-TV, after waiting through the network's prolonged search for a regional sponsor, looked for one of its own, ran up against the same commercial objections as had thwarted CBS, and finally decided that the "package" wasn't worth all the expensive wrappings...
...mostly by statistics. Even in this limited context, the record was imposing: Joe farms 505 acres, of which he owns 85; he rents the rest from his father, a fertilizer salesman, for $1,150 (plus three butchered hogs and a calf) a year. He has bought nearly $15,000 worth of equipment, ranging from a $2,800 John Deere tractor to a $125 mule-drawn wagon. His livestock is valued at more than $16,000 and includes 71 head of beef cattle, 30 of them fine purebred Aberdeen-Angus, plus seven registered Duroc-Jersey sows and about 80 sheep...
...former official residence in Buenos Aires. On exhibit: his 16 cars and 240 motorcycles and motor-scooters, his late wife Eva's 400 dresses, 600 hats, assorted mink coats and jewelry appraised at $1,000,000. A sign on one necklace noted that it was worth a month's work by 3,500 Argentine laborers...
...plot is pat, the situations cliché, and the novel's real worth lies in the embroidery with which Author Spring (My Son, My Son) surrounds that crimson gown. The rich and reverent descriptions of the English scene are worth the price of admission, as are some of the characters-especially Chad's Dickensian Uncle Arthur, a glutton who grows auriculae and dotes on a skinny whippet...