Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...
...Washington officials shrugged when asked to explain the lack of the usual Soviet harassment; there had been no secret deal between Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko at Geneva, they insisted, no hints of a softening of Kremlin policy. Perhaps, suggested the experts, Moscow was just pausing to catch its breath before the next round of trouble...
Hollywood, on the other hand, which drew her to the U.S. in 1957, mainly cast her in dishonest stories with dishonest endings. In A Breath of Scandal, she was a fin-de-siècle Austrian princess falling in love with a mining engineer from Pittsburgh. In Heller in Pink Tights, she was an actress traveling the Old West who bet her "honor" in a poker game with a desperate gunfighter...
...popolana, playing an illiterate Neapolitan girl who works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia is not a star showing off but a figure that belongs...
...ancient geyser for five minutes, achieves a pathetic dribble of tepid water, starts to shave. "Breakfast!" Dad slumps groggily over his coffee. "Now don't be late, dear." Dad rises wearily, kisses his daughter goodbye. She draws back as if from a leper. "You've got bad breath!" Is it any wonder that Dad, a librarian somewhere in Wales, goes barmy in the back stacks with the first pretty woman (Mai Zetterling) who evinces interest in one of his favorite volumes, Concise History of Codpieces? One moonless night she takes him out for a spin, but just...