Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malaria that has defied preventives and resists cure. Temperatures hit 130° on the sandy beaches, 20° in the mountains. In the water-filled bunkers of Danang and Phan Rang, marines and paratroopers wrapped themselves in rubberized ponchos to grab a few hours' soaked sleep. In the endless paddyfields, men on long patrols came down with agonizing foot sores from polluted ooze...
...endless title too literally explains, it is a play within a play-a dramatization of the dagger slaying of the French revolutionary leader who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. (Actually, the enlightened keeper of the Charenton asylum did believe in the therapeutic value of having inmates act out plays, and Sade, who was incarcerated there for a time, contributed some scripts...
...smuggling to world domination. What is it up to this time? No less, it immediately turns out, than blackmailing Britain out of 100 million pounds -- the price demanded for returning two atomic bombs hidden at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Bond, I am sad to say, survives an endless series of fights and saves both the British treasury and the city of Miami, which SPECTURE was planning to annihilate to prove it wasn't kidding...
...mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) and his family away to the relative safety of the Urals; and Lean bears down on every detail of their flight across an endless white snowscape in which ordinary human values seem suddenly locked in deep freeze...
...overeating, undersleeping and hangovers. The Easterners enjoy treating their capitalist guests to marathon meals, brassy nightclubs and the other delights of bourgeois Bolshevism. Says Günter Friedrich, head of Depolma, a German-Polish trading company: "You have to have an enormous capacity for vodka and an endless stock of jokes-particularly political jokes and spicy ones...