Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing but a policeman. Lay a hand on me and I'll slap a brutality charge on you." After a few more rounds of that, the poor fuzz hauled the fighter of the year off to the station house, where he posted $25 bond on a disorderly conduct charge...
Thunderball spreads a treasury of wish-fulfilling fantasy over a nickel's worth of plot. The fantasy is the familiar amalgam of wholesale sex, comic-strip heroism, bogus glamour and James Bond (Sean Connery). The plot concerns Bond's new nemesis, Largo. As No. 2 man of Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
Though From Russia with Love remains the liveliest Bond opera to date, Thunderball is by all odds the most spectacular. Its script hasn't a morsel of genuine wit, but Bond fans, who are preconditioned to roll in the aisles when their hero merely asks a waiter to bring some beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon '55, will probably never notice. They are switched on by a legend that plays straight to the senses, and its colors are primary. Director Terence Young dunks his camera into a swimming pool full of sharks for the film...
...Bond's dry-land conquests were somewhat zingier type in Goldfinger, but in Thunderball he manages a change of pace by joining Largo's seaworthy French playmate (Claudine Auger) for an amorous exploit down among the corals. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he quips afterward, wading ashore. Alas, even subaqueous sex cannot keep the formula entirely fresh. Yet, if Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. He is hilariously astringent when he drops a limp...
...shake-up put new life into the whole system, inspired parental excitement over the schools. When Newcomer proposed an astonishing $21 million school bond issue in 1963, the P.T.A. put 5,000 people to work stuffing information envelopes and plugging the cause. It passed 7.5 to 1. Only 15 months later he proposed a $38 million issue-and it passed better than 4 to 1. Since his arrival, two high schools, three junior highs, 20 elementary schools and 20 additions have been built...