Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gail Olmstead, pregnant with her second child (the first: Karen, 2), spent the empty, endless weeks of waiting at her parents' home in Plainfield, N.J. It was hard to maintain her husband's faith that everything would work out, that they would be back together soon. The details of Bruce Olmstead's confinement were not encouraging: "I am kept alone in a cell but am not being abused." Prison, he wrote, "has pretty well shown me that I couldn't quite make it as a cloistered monk. I am given cigarettes, hon, and filters at that...
...after a lifetime as an Algerian moderate who seemed unable to reconcile his love of French culture with his Moslem inheritance. He speaks far better French than Arabic, has a French wife. The pressure of other F.L.N. leaders last year induced Abbas, discouraged about rebel prospects in the endless war, to journey to Peking and appeal for Red Chinese help. Abbas hoped that the threat of a Red alliance would force the U.S., Britain and the United Nations to bring pressure on France to negotiate...
Prayer by the Squirt. When life is gone, mourning begins. Its variations are endless. Until recently, the Dakota Indians slashed themselves with knives, sometimes even killed themselves in transports of bereavement. The Ovimbundu simply wear a leather thong on the left wrist...
...Sundowners. When not upstaged by dingoes, wombats, endless flocks of sheep and Peter Ustinov, Stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr are appropriately knockabout as a shiftless couple beating the Australian bush...
...permanent residents. Peter Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag. But when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that drift across the screen like clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows...