Word: bee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curtain rises on a South Dakota whistle stop with an acting troupe doing a madcap facsimile of 1906 theater fare called The Mountie Gets His Man or Chang Lu, King of the White Slavers. With valiant agility and a good dagger-throwing arm, Mary saves her tiny "bay-bee" from a mountain waterfall, a grizzly bear, and the Oriental devil mentioned in the title. End of fun. Hubby (George Wallace) strands the company and deserts his wife and two kids. An English playwright of exquisite diction (Robin Bailey) begins wooing Mary, though his blood seems to be several degrees below...
...Alfonso, marriage becomes a nightmare and the big brass bed in their room an innerspring torture rack. Then abruptly-too abruptly-the film shifts moods. Regina is smugly, victoriously pregnant; the queen bee has been served. Soon Alfonso finds her frigidity as maddening as her earlier ardor. One last time she condescends, and he is carted away in an ambulance...
Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little...
...your cover story of Aug. 9 is mistakenly termed a "queen bee." A far more appropriate term would be a black widow...
...Queen Bee...