Word: gem
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Kevin Cotter as Fanny's toe-tapping friend Eddie Ryan are delightful in two minor numbers, "Who Taught Her Everything," and "Find Yourself a Man," Cotter has the best voice in the cast. My favorite character has always been the neighborhood yenta Mrs. Strakosh, Eva Piques, who inherited this gem, has read either not enough or too much Philip Roth. She swallowed some of her best lines (especially "When a girl's incidentals are no bigger than two lentils, then to me that doesn't spell success."). For this I waited all day in anticipation...
Lieut. Gregory Wallace, a World War II fighter pilot, is shot down in the Pacific and finds himself on a perfect gem of a desert island. Four kinds of fruit. Coconut milk. Plenty of wild potatoes. Quite edible sea birds and their eggs. A made-to-order fresh-water pool. Even one fellow inhabitant-a sort of man Friday named Kee. Why, Robinson Crusoe would have been down on his knees, offering up one of his manly prayers of thanksgiving to Providence...
...Diamond Bourses, global sales have dropped by 30% so far in 1970. But Israel has done better than its competitors because it concentrates on the smaller stones, about one carat or less, which are becoming the most popular ones, particularly in the U.S. and Japan. Israel's gem exports have declined only 11% this year...
...Beatles' LP could be all dull, however. Get Back is topnotch. For You Blue is a small gem featuring a moonlit slide guitar that twangs all the way from Nashville to Waikiki. Underlying the basically nostalgic thrust of the album is an authentic piece of oldtime rock 'n' roll, One After 909, which Lennon and McCartney wrote together back...
...shortstop, Park has found another sophomore gem in Art Serrano. "He's the hub of our infield." Park said. "He's a take-charge guy who keeps things moving...