Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bullshot & Zebra Skins. The biggest center of cooperative seclusion is Jamaica's north shore, which has half a dozen new subdivisions where the clink of cocktail glasses is heard from morning bullshot to evening brandy. At the Tryall estates, west of Montego Bay. an American couple who figure in the international set, Arthur W. Little Jr. and his wife Harriet, last year built a $200,000 home that features a patio made of 100-year-old bricks. Peter Arno nudes in the master bathroom, and zebra skins from an African safari...
...brokers no longer do their trading from the curbstones of Lower Manhattan dressed in zebra-striped hats and bright blazers, but SEC found that several of the stocks they trade in their spacious hall ("a large number of these have been stock of Canadian mining or oil companies") are as risky as they were in the days of the '49 Gold Rush. "While undoubtedly the great majority of issuers of listed stocks are sound business enterprises," noted SEC, "the Exchange has appeared reluctant to suspend or de-list issues whose future prospects have proved...
...preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera is a carnivore, stalking for blood and bruised flesh, and the sight is fascinating. But it is like a lion tearing at a zebra: only a spectator with a great hatred for zebras can watch it for long...
...Cheaters (Silver-Zebra; Continental) and Frantic (Times Film Co.). French moviemakers have lately had the notion that any film in which the young wear duffel coats, drink too much and charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as fashionable as sinning after lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they...
...usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia, as everyone had a last fond sit on the zebra-stripe upholstery. Beaming throughout was John Perona, El Morocco's owner, and Journal-American Society Columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini) pronounced the eulogy, quoting Lucius Beebe: "El Morocco and Perona are the products of emergent evolution. Nobody foresaw that through the agency of a constantly diminishing dance floor...