Word: craven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the acts of this royal variety show are several excursions off to the home of the wicked Stepmother (Margaret Lockwood-the heroine, during rather better times, of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes). There, Cinderella (Gemma Craven) gets snooted by her Stepsisters and gazes sorrowfully into the flames of the scullery fire, waiting for her Fairy Godmother to come along...
...European-born U.S. Secretary and the Continent's leaders were mostly forgotten. The much-vaunted Year of Europe that Kissinger had advocated in 1973, without prior consultation, had outraged the allies. In the oil crisis and embargo of the same year, Kissinger privately described the Europeans as "craven" for failing to stand up to the oil producers. He exacerbated troubled U.S. relations with Greece and Turkey during the Cyprus invasion of 1974. Yet, as the Europeans well-and gratefully-realized, he had boldly assumed the role of U.S. President for foreign policy and symbolized America's steady resolve...
...challenger climbed out of the ring to avoid the wrath of the champion. The fifth time Bruno was not to be put off by such illegal shenanigans and leapt out of the ring after his staggering foe. Around and around the ring Bruno chased the terrified Hansen, until the craven defrauder had to crawl back into the ring to save his skin. Then, in what all true fans must agree to be one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in history, the referee, who had barely gotten to three in the twenty count out-of-the-ring-disqualification-call, declared...
...week on the sets of Cinderella, her 17th movie, currently being filmed in London. "When we get to the ballroom scene, I do trust I'm going to be allowed to dance?" asked Dame Edith, who portrays a dowager queen opposite Richard Chamberlain as Prince Charming and Gemma Craven as Cinderella. With London suffering through one of its muggiest summers in years, the indomitable Dame has been arriving for work promptly at 8 a.m. and surprising her co-stars and Director Bryan Forbes with her endurance. "Feel fit, and you are fit," she explained simply. And her secret...
...hard to say who's the best performer in this tiny masterpiece because all four actors do such a superb job. Charles Weinstein as Giuseppe the uncommitted, conciliatory innkeeper plays the stereotypical, craven, religious Italian as completely as that kind of role allows. And Tom Champion plays a marvelous loon-tenant. He has this sense of uncanny timing, this air of naivete that works particularly well when he tells the strange lady to take off her dress so he can see if she really isn't that boy in disguise or when he casually draws a scenario for Napoleon showing...