Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trajectory that was to put her into international orbit for the rest of her life. She had an eye for the bright young comers-"darling Cole" Porter, with whose "secret songs" she sent many a titled gathering into a state of delicious shock; and, of course, "dear Noel" Coward...
...Fanny Hill on his bedside shelf, he should be warned that as a stylist, Harris is no match for Cleland. Along about the seventh seduction it becomes apparent that all of Harris' women are the same-defeated enemies who surrender to his massive virility. "Oh, you great, strong dear!" cries his first conquest-and so, for 87 chapters, cry all the others (about 100, by rough count). For the discriminating reader, there is one way of telling them apart: as Harris got older and older, his girls became younger and younger. At 65, he is in Bombay examining naked...
...side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...kept the Mirror going was its proprietor's reluctance to part with any of his properties. "Pop held on to some real dogs," said William Randolph Hearst Jr. recently. The Mirror was one of those dogs, and although the Chief knew it, he did not seem to care. "Dear Arthur," he wrote in a now-famous memo to Arthur Brisbane, who was then the Mirror's publisher: "You are now getting out the worst newspaper...
...Courage, Dear Reader! Lo and Behold are Fielding's favorite characters, and Richardson makes frequent and gloriously funny use of them. His actors catch the spirit of the thing from the first scene, and they have a picnic. The characters are rumbustious caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines...