Word: drown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation. The dramatist Terence wrote: "At Baiae one never knows what the night will bring," and the poet Propertius warned his girl friend that "The waters of Baiae lead to immoral love." At Baiae Nero built the biggest bath, and a vast covered pool. Here he also tried to drown his mother...
...gold standard, Jane Russell does a frenetic, blond-wigged imitation of Marilyn and, surrounded by a beefcake chorus of athletes, sings Anyone Here for Love? in fine deadpan style. Sample dialogue: First Athlete: "If the ship hits an iceberg and sinks, which girl would you save from drowning?" Second Athlete with a smirk: "Those girls couldn't drown...
...pistol point, made the youths drive on to an empty bicycle shop on a lonely street. Here the kidnapers hauled them out, stuck oranges into their mouths, blindfolded, trussed and loaded them into gunny sacks, dumped them into a couple of rickshas. Singing gay Cantonese songs to drown out any possible outcry, the men pulled the rickshas to an empty house in a desolate part of Macao,where they opened up the sacks and retrussed the two youths. They wound cloth tape around their heads mummy fashion, leaving space only for nostrils and mouths. They replaced the oranges with unshelled...
...book, together with the staging, does succeed in bringing the viewer backstage. Much of the humor comes from the audience's knowing that the orchestra leader hates the male singer and is attempting to drown him out, or that a lead dancer has lost his partner and is improvising wildly. Though this extreme in intimacy is the only innovation in Me and Juliet, it is a considerable...
...serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...