Word: bondomania
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...Came In from the Cold A realist's corrective to the first flush of Bondomania, this intelligent 1965 film of the John le Carré novel saw the Cold War as a bitter stalemate in shades of gray. Richard Burton and Oskar Werner are the rival agents whose complex loyalties run into a Berlin Wall...
Though the resemblance of Madness to Bondomania is otherwise superficial, Director Irvin Kershner savors the joke to excess. The rest of Elliott Baker's screenplay, adapted from his own 1964 novel and filmed with careful fidelity on the seedy side of Manhattan, is a fitfully funny satire based on a portrait of the artist as the natural enemy of all Establishment norms. This voguish half-truth worked well enough in book form, where nearly every character was a well-managed mass of lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director...
...Young World tries to speak about the restless spirit of modern youth in timely catchwords. A fille de frug wearing topless finery is whisked aloft at a wild students' ball in Paris. Sean Connery appears briefly, creating instant Bondomania. The troubles in Viet Nam and Santo Domingo are touched upon. Finally, Hero Nino Castelnuovo, as a young Italian making the Paris scene, comes right out with it: "Don't you feel a new world is in the making...
...bizarre, decadent world of the superspy naturally inspires a certain amount of earnest speculation. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denounces Bondomania as "a dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex," though permissive Dr. Joseph Fletcher, author of Situation Ethics (TIME, Jan. 21), sees it as "healthy fantasizing and myth-making." Dr. Harold Lief of Tulane's Department of Psychiatry thinks Bond's Playboy philosophy may reflect society's changing values and the shape of things to come-"another manifestation of the trend toward greater female aggressiveness, the separation of love...
...changed. After 31 years, Nero Wolfe is still 286 Ibs. large, still guzzles at least a dozen beers and tends his orchids for precisely four hours daily, still abhors leaving his Manhattan house on business, and never goes near a sports car or chases a blonde. While thus ignoring Bondomania and its sibling rivals, Stout and Wolfe are doing just fine. If The Doorbell Rang holds true to recent form, it will sell at least 60,-000 hardback copies and 1,000,000 in paperback...