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...such girls in particular are the talk of Broadway's present season: Sandy Dennis, the coy mistress of a corporate president in Any Wednesday; and Elizabeth Ashley, who, as a new bride living in a fifth-floor walkup, is part wife, part nut in Barefoot in the Park...
...against President Johnson in a series of trial heats. On a nationwide basis, Rocky fared worst: he drew 16% of the votes to Johnson's 77% . Goldwater was hardly better off, with 18% to Lyndon's 75%. But, in an impressive demonstration of the importance of being coy, Non-Candidate Nixon got 24% of the votes against 71% for the President, and Lodge-who is even more of a non-candidate-did best of all, with 25% to Johnson...
...Coy at first, Castiella finally accepted a five-year extension. The price: "military assistance" to the Spanish armed forces and a pledge from Rusk of $100 million in development aid from the Export-Import Bank...
...cold formality is muted with familiar gestures and folk costumes. As the flight to the desert progressed, their vision became more provincial, and the classicism was discarded. Their sculpture grew smaller and more personal, painting became fragmentary instead of monumental. There is a childlike naivete in the coy games of god and goddess, the paper-doll stare of a saint, the back-patting of Christ and a monk (see color...
Ross Hunter produced The Thrill of It All, and it has all those little Ross Hunter touches-coy tingles over connubial sex ("Is it your wife's birthday tonight?" "No, but it may be somebody's"), wise-apple kiddies ("Daddy, Mommy's down in the cellar with a man"). But one thrill is missing: the will-she-or-won't-she question that so breathlessly sustained the previous assaults on Doris' virginity in the recent sudsy cycle of Day comedies. Now that Doris has given in and traded maidenhood for motherhood, life is going...