Word: chicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breaks his fellow shipping clerks' strike, raids his former employer's staff to start his own dress firm, ditches his loyal girl friend for a platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song and dance number called Momma, Momma...
...Antonioni's contempt; Anna disappears; Antonioni never gives much attention to either the featherbrained Julia or the calm Patrizia. Only Claudia is left. And because she alone remains at the end of the film, the audience must wonder if the story is only that the slob has caught another chick. In the despairing La Dolce Vita, this would be the message. But the distinctive characteristic of L'Avventura is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna (if she lives), as has Julia. L'Avventura...
Sunday in New York, by Norman Krasna. has as its heroine an unhip news-chick who is 22 and given to wondering out loud whether she should give up her virginity. The chick (Pat Stanley) is assured by her air pilot brother (Conrad Janis) that nice girls shouldn't. Her millionaire boy friend walks out on her, contending that she should. Riding a Manhattan Fifth Avenue bus and nursing the blues, she hooks another eligible male (Robert Redford) - hooks him literally, with a barbed dress catch that rips out his breast pocket. They share a snack and a movie...
...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
Smallpox. Improved vaccines are being made, some by growing cowpox virus in live calves (the historic method), some in chick embryo, freeze-drying it so that it will ship better and keep longer without refrigeration...