Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little prologue, shown as a silent film with title frames inserted and a hurdy-gurdy hammering in the background, tiny Tom is found luxuriously "abandoned" in Squire Allworthy's bed and is instantly adopted by the dear old fellow (George Devine). In the next scene Tom (Albert Finney) is already pushing 20-not to mention the voluptuous daughter (Diane Cilento) of his uncle's gamekeeper. Five minutes after that the audience knows all about the beauteous Sophie Western (Susannah York), Tom's light-o'-love: about Squire Western, her apoplectic pa; and about that slimy fellow...
...Blifil set out in hot pursuit, and the next hour is crammed with all manner of violent and absurd adventures: desperate duels, rascally robberies, satanic stranglings, egregious escapes, and any number of precipitate plunges into a fate nobody seems to consider worse than death. At the climax poor dear Sophie is about to be raped and poor brave Tom has his neck in a noose...
After the Lynching. Mme. Nhu's performance began at the Saigon airport. She said that when her mother cabled her from the U.S. urging her to flee South Viet Nam with her children because their lives were in danger, she had answered: "Dear Mother, I am sorry you have become intoxicated." To a question about her itinerary, she said: "Everyone calls me 'the Dragon Lady.' For the next few weeks, I will be like the dragonfly of the Vietnamese song. When it's happy, it stays; when it's unhappy, it flies away...
...that Coleman was an integrationist. During his campaign, he tossed the word "nigger" around almost as freely as Johnson. But Coleman did argue for at least law-abiding resistance to integration, and he warned that extreme racism "is going to destroy our state and everything we hold dear if we don't control...
...protect her secret soul is fairly new in this genre. She is adept at putting the false comic nose on the face of authority, and all get a good laugh from the schoolmaster who told her she was "a long streak of nothing," from Mum, and from the dear silly nuns who had her in charge for a while. We learn without astonishment that they were more pious but not so clever as little Shelagh. But did she really believe that they slept at night hanging upside down from the rafters? And did she really win all the arguments about...