Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venezuela, the poverty-stricken source of fabulous oil fortunes, has the highest cost of living in South America. Gunther's small, windowless hall bedroom cost him $8 a day. The first thing he saw in Venezuela was a large signboard reading: CURE YOURSELF OF SYPHILIS...
...title of "This Woman Is Mine" fool you. It isn't the passionate love-me-or-I-die flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point...
...Father Joseph was offered quarters in Richelieu's house. Instead he chose "a deserted summerhouse standing beside a broad ditch at the end of the garden. . . . When the wind blew hard from offshore and the tides were high, the ditch overflowed, ankle deep, into the friar's bedroom...
...hours before dawn one morning last week, Alexandria, La. (pop. 27,000) was wakened by the bangs and bops of rifle fire. In the moonlit streets below bedroom windows flame spurted from Springfields and Garands; from hedges, fences, shadows, machine guns chattered. Streets filled with clanking trucks and sputtering motorcycles. In Louisiana's Army maneuvers, soldiers of three divisions had met in the city, were settling down to fight for its possession. And Alexandria loved it. But Army authorities, mindful of the awful traffic tangle that 8 o'clock would bring, were horrified. Umpires straightway ordered the troops...
When he was eleven, Gino determined to kill her. After six years of wrestling with his inhibitions, he rushed into her bedroom with the knife. As soon as he killed her, he felt relief from tremendous tension...