Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Despite 1960's troubles, the underwriters will all show their customary profit this year. Movie insurance turns on a working combination of independent brokers who know show business and glam-ourproof actuaries who know just what table the show must go on. They protect themselves with .such features as the "48hour clause franchise" (no payoff if shooting is held up less than three days) they raise premiums to cover special risks: film versions of Broadway plays are often expensive because groups of stars are generally on-camera at the same time and if one is out the whole production...
...need not be taken at all seriously. He is much more appropriate in the role of court jester to the 20th century, jingling the bells of dying ideologies and feudal theories, and giggling insanely at the reality in front of him. Never mind the world, Senator, on with the show--with just a slight hint of tragedy behind the charade in case any take it literally...
...show life as it is. If what I write is true, then there will be some social meaning in it. When I write a novel I want to express my view of life. Whether it is the right or wrong view, it apparently contains some ideas and perhaps in some of these there is some truth...
...obvious that Sports Illustrated went into Hopkins with its opinion already formed, and tried to fit what it found to its theories. When the article says, "The morale of the Johns Hopkins football squad, understandably, is lackadaisical, even if their playing doesn't show it," distortion is just around the corner. Hopkins' coach, Wilson Fewater, although he has never had a losing season, "is, as might be expected, a case study in almost total frustration," the article assumes, with blithe disregard for rationality...
...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Taped in Paris, where the songstress sightsees with the second grand Charles-Boyer-and the Ballet of the Opéra Comique. Color...