Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the war against the Mau Mau is run from Nairobi, and Nairobi is by & large run by the sons of old Colonel Blimp, the ex-Indian army colonels, the not-so-young younger sons of aristocratic families with hyphenated names, it is not surprising that the embattled farmers explode with numerous complaints about Nairobi's incompetence and muddle-mindedness. Kenya, though by population a small country, has a baffling superstructure of government departments. "There is no liaison whatsoever," an upcountry district commissioner complained. "God knows what happens to my reports when they reach Nairobi; they never bear...
...Wild Heart often turns out tame in its preordained plotting, but the story has been imaginatively told by Britain's pro-ducing-directing-writing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes).* The picture has a warm, earthy flavor with handsomely photographed Technicolor scenes of the rolling Shropshire countryside. And a strong cast helps cover up some of the story weaknesses: David Farrar swaggers masterfully as the horsy squire, and Cyril Cusack is appropriately pale and wan as the deserted parson. But it is in Jennifer Jones's lush, wide-eyed performance...
...produced most of the loot, and the robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform-peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 30, British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp) who has settled in Hollywood (King Solomon's Mines, Quo Vadis), and Anthony Bartley, 34, producer of adventure movie shorts: their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Francesca Ann. Weight...
...members of his cast of caricatures are as familiar as faces in a family album: there is the lecherous, coupon-clipping U.S. edition of Colonel Blimp ("I'll tell you what I'd do if I were General Eisenhower. I'd do exactly what General Lee would have done if he'd been General Eisenhower!"); the nubile, doe-eyed golddigger who is mock-terrified in the clinches ("But where is all this leading us to, Mr. Hartman-Miami? Palm Beach? Hollywood?"); and the gimlet-eyed old biddy who adores baseball players ("We do sell them sometimes...