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...habitual to women whose living is made by treating other women like rich babies. The department keeps clientele books, with histories of purchases and discreet information on husband's job, working habits, traveling time, ages of children and weekend homes. Thank-you notes are sent, inquiries made about "your darlin' son Marc...
...Darlin' " is a word much used. The dresses are not declared to be knockout, fashionable, stunning or even competitive--but darlin'. An old-money wife in her peppy 70s describes her husband's "little log lodge," where "you can lie in bed at night and push the button and the roof opens up so you can see the stars," as . . . darlin'. A mother and daughter, real estate money, both completely spherical, describe the spring collection's piece de resistance, a long beaded white gown surmounted by a tailored denim topper, for $13,700, as darlin'. The customers do not often...
Screenwriter Arlen has a fine ear for Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
DIED. Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Russian-born composer who won three Oscars for his soaring scores for The High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea and High Noon, and another for High Noon's memorable theme song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'; after fracturing his pelvis in a fall; in London. Intent on pursuing a career as a concert pianist, Tiomkin left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, made his Paris concert debut in 1924 and two years later performed for the first time in the U.S. Caught in the rush of talent to Hollywood...
...running about trying to look Italian by wildly gesticulating and screaming 'Brava, Brava.' Bertolucci also drags out an antiquated collection of cliches about opera and its fans. His women parade about a la Gertrude Stein and partake of lesbian love with decadent Italian countesses. His men lisp on about 'darlin' Caterina and swish about backstage. It would be funny if it weren't so offensive...