Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even asked each of the Cabinet's 28 members to give a blow-by-blow account of his own electoral battles, delivered a wryly appropriate quote from Vergil when Veterans' Affairs Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti found it hard to talk about his defeat by 166 votes. "Infandum, regina, iubes reno-vare dolorem,"-murmured De Gaulle -"Unspeakable is the pain, O Queen, that you command me to relive...
...beat the new movement, they decided to join it. New Hollywoods, largely supported by U.S. capital, arose on the Seine and the Isar, the Tiber and the Thames. In 1966, every other movie made with American money was made abroad, and many of them (A Man for All Seasons, Blow-Up, Taming of the Shrew) were made by European directors and actors. Moreover, moviemaking at last fell out of the pockets of the moneymen in the front offices and into the hands of directors, writers and actors who suddenly found themselves with more freedom than they had ever known...
...rarely prurient. If it is sometimes startlingly explicit, it is nevertheless unself-conscious and often functional to the plot?or what plot there is. It is also unstereotyped. People make love on the couch (Georgy Girl), in cars (Alfie), and in a susurrous sea of blue backdrop paper (Blow-Up). And the girl hardly ever waits any more to be asked; she communicates sex like a banner headline...
...first. Offered a part in Morgan!, she decided to take a stab at pictures. The public got the point all right. To Vanessa's amazement, millions acclaimed her as the most exciting thing the British had produced since radar. Director Antonioni, casting for a British actress to play in Blow-Up, had heard about Vanessa. "I had not met her before," he recalls, "but I looked at stacks of her photos and concluded that she was the one I wanted. But I didn't know if she really would accept the part. After all, it wasn't a very...
Lynn meanwhile had another feast on the crumbs from Vanessa's table. Just before Blow-Up came along, Vanessa had backed out of a commitment to play Georgy Girl. (It was just as well, since the script says that Georgy "looks like the back of a bus.") Offered the part, Lynn grabbed it and put on 18 Ibs. of omnibustle. The Redgrave rampage...