Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also, as he has said, the face of a "heavily doped Chinese illusionist" -a perfect Noel Coward characterization of the sort of facial urbanity one wears to prize-givings. At one dinner party, Earl Mountbatten of Burma actually calculated that Coward had written 27 plays and 281 songs, and Sir Laurence Olivier called him "utterly unspoiled." The Coward eyebrows uncocked a bit, the eyes glanced sideways, and the words hummed forth on the wings of a bee: "That's what you think." He rose to reply to the tributes at a midnight gala in his honor: "I am awfully...
...everyday existence in this society when we can see a good citizen like Tiny Tim marry beautiful Vicky Budinger the same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...
...easy to manufacture, and Scenarists James Poe and Robert E. Thompson operate an assembly line. Ruby tunelessly chants The Best Things in Life Are Free, then crawls for the pennies people throw her way. A Harlow-eyed blonde (Susannah York) is in the contest not for the $1,500 prize, but for a chance to be seen by a movie talent scout who might elevate her to bearable unreality. When the marathon begins to drag, Rocky dresses the participants in track suits and has them race around the floor-an event that literally causes the ancient mariner's heart...
...feel he has little to gain by following the fortunes of the local satraps up and down the Peloponnesus in this flagrantly detailed novel about Alexander the Great's first 20 years. Not only is the cast large and devious, but the archaeological displays are as plentiful as prize vegetable exhibits at a fair...
Contest organizers have not yet chosen a prize for the winner. "The honor of being the pancake eating champion of Quincy House should be enough for anyone," DiCara said...