Word: tip
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...disturbing to see such bluffing and two-plus-two obviousness in the work of a man generally regarded as a master of style. All the same, the film is divertingly spiked with scenes in which DePalma admits and mocks the fatuousness of what he's presenting. The biggest tip-off is the incongruously languid, heavily orchestrated, ham-strung music, which seems brought on by mistake from another movie. At the outset of the museum scene, for instance, Angie Dickenson sits alone on a bench, looking at a large billboard-flat painting by Alex Katz--a portrait of a woman...
MARRIED. Raquel Welch, 39, sometimes reluctant cinematic sex symbol; and André Weinfeld, 33, French film writer and director, whom she met two years ago on location in France; she for the third time, he for the first; at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula...
...telling that Kim Philby's fellow spy, Guy Burgess, was fond of quoting Forster's doctrine, since, thanks to a tip-off from Philby, Burgess was able to flee England for the Soviet Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes...
...squarely to the attorney: "If you win this case, isn't it true that some people may die as a result?" It was a typically pointed question from Stevens, but as befits a man renowned for his skill at the bridge table, he did not tip his hand: he ended up writing the lead opinion in a decision throwing out the benzene regulation...
...most common positions during waking hours. It also happens to be one of the worst for the back. Choose a chair that provides firm support, especially of the lower back. Keep feet slightly elevated. Get up occasionally, stretch and walk around to relieve the strain. A special tip to men: do not keep a bulging wallet in the back pocket. During long intervals of sitting, it can press on the sciatic nerve, sending shooting pains down...