Word: burtonizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Delivering the eighth Burton Lecture, Coombs decried "fragmentation" in America's "vast sprawling public and private" aid effort. He said that aid, whether in the form of grants from the government or exchange programs arranged by universities, must be directed at the "fundamental problems" of the underdeveloped nations...
...Others. Meanwhile, Sue Lyon (Lolita, '62) is there, too, playing a young tourist; and U.S. newspapers have been cropping pictures madly-cutting out everyone but Sue and Burton-to suggest irrepressible tropical passions drawing the two together. Actually, Sue is 17 and old enough to have brought along her own outrider, like everyone else. His name is Hampton Fancher III. "You mean there are two others?" cracked one of the company. Fancher, a 25-year-old would-be actor, takes advantage of his position as consort to boss everybody around...
...tawny Anglo-Iranian girl named Zoë: with him. He has also made the happy discovery of raicilla, a 180-proof distillate of the maguey plant that is far more potent than tequila. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine," says Burton...
...water from Puerto Vallarta. Daily at noon, Taylor arrives by launch, often dressed in a pink bikini, bringing a picnic lunch for Richard from the kitchen of their four-story villa. Ashore, she and Richard go around in a Jeep with a red and white striped canvas top. Burton is the company champion at flinging frisbees. He has learned Spanish, using records and written grammar. He is working well, too. With Williams and Huston behind him, it is conceivable that this movie could win him an Academy Award. "I can tell when I'm in a good picture...
Tennessee Williams has his doubts. He hustled down to Puerto Vallarta last month to try to talk Huston out of using a Happy Ending. But Huston is obstinate, so Williams grew a beard and tried to keep cool by going swimming in the luke waters with Taylor and Burton. Tennessee wears a bathing cap and Elizabeth does...