Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the international smuggling racket to become a sort of freelance girl Friday for the British Secret Service. Armed with blouse-button bombs, cigarette lighters that turn out to be miniature flame throwers, and lipstick that untelescopes into a deadly arrow, Modesty outbombs and outshoots everybody, including that archcriminal Dirk Bogarde...
Needing a dupe to carry out a delicate mission in Prague, Morley hires an unpublished writer (Dirk Bogarde). "I'd be a lot happier if he'd been to a decent school," says Morley's aide in dour appraisal of the new man. Bogarde believes that he is a trade representative sent to pick up a message from a Czechoslovakian glass factory. Instead he picks up the Communist intelligence chief's voluptuous daughter (Sylva Koscina), one of those girls to whom defection and seduction are practically synonymous. Of course, the two fall in love...
Well brought up, disastrously beautiful, Darling grows bored with marriage to a "desperately immature" nobody, latches onto a bookish TV commentator (Dirk Bogarde) who deserts his wife and family to go live with her. He also introduces her to Important People. "Here was one of the great writers of the century, and there I was . . . suddenly, one felt madly in," she confides to the sound-track interviewer, revealing less in words than in her subtly interchangeable accents, which range from grande-dame to guttersnipe...
...SERVANT. Promoting country matters in a smart London town house, Dirk Bogarde gives a highly polished performance as a vicious "gentleman's gentleman" who corrupts his master...
...Harlem Council for Economic Development and a thoroughgoing demagogue. What Lawson means is clear. Last April half a dozen Negro punks entered a husband-and-wife clothing store on 125th Street, got into an argument and stabbed the wife, Mrs. Magit Sugar, to death with a double-edged dirk. Lawson said that the store, once worth $5,000, could now be bought from disconsolate Frank Sugar, a Hungarian refugee, for $150. Similar "expropriations," he predicts, will take place if whites do not sell out to Negroes...