Word: corking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course this was not quite the same Bridey that married the son of a Cork barrister and danced Irish jigs. Thanks to the mystery of reincarnation, she is now Mrs. Ruth Simmons, wife of a Pueblo auto dealer. Stretched out on a couch in a deep trance, with witnesses aplenty and a tape recorder taking it all down, Bridey-Ruth under hypnosis answered a few questions about life beyond the grave...
...begins stalking Alexis. At novel's end, Alexis runs off with the contessa, but in effect tells Jenny to go stand in a corner for five years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that if an Englishman really tries, he can be a lot more Gallic than the Gauls -at least on paper...
...filmed on location . . . inside a woman's soul!" Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann, with the help of a sharp script by Helen Deutsch and Jay Richard Kennedy, gets around inside his subject with tact and agility. Susan Hayward plays her part right up to the cork; she can make the audience see not only the horror of the heroine's life but the rye humor of it, too. Jo Van Fleet is even more accomplished and convincing as the sort of stage mother who rides a child's life as a witch rides a broom...
...fellagha operate at night in bands of 12 to 15, hiding in the caves or the deep cork forests by day. "They are naturally beautiful fighters," says Pierre Galuzot, a lieutenant in the Foreign Legion. "They are tougher than the Viet Minh Communists; they are the best marksmen I have ever fought against...
...Cork, Author Hawley has a knowing way with business lingo. While Cash and Lory's vapid love scenes tax patience as well as belief, the vitality of Cash McCall rests in its forceful portrait of a venture capitalist who is as remote from a backslapping booster as Reinhold Niebuhr is from Norman Vincent Peale...