Word: erful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonetheless keeps the action tumbling in and out of mirrors, closets, mantels, trap doors. And sneaky camerawork by France's formidable Henri Decae imbues the décor with glittering menace. As the ne'er-do-well whose passions surge at the drop of a bank note, Delon is a rake smoothly handled by Temptress Albright and coltish Actress Fonda, who comes through as a sort of cheerleader turned femme fatale. Together, they make Joy House as sportive as a carnival crazy house, brimful of absurd surprises...
Brute" and "The Beast"), when he visited the island, stepping out from behind a bush and introducing the third Reich, her six-year-old son David. "You are a good man," said beauty to the beast. "I was wondering if you could help me stay here." Er, um, muttered the hapless brute. Give him Montezuma any time...
Surprisingly, the trattoria prospers, bringing unexpected fringe benefits. Signoret finds that she can still feel prudish about free love with a ne'er-do-well used-car salesman (Marcello Mastroianni). A neurotic colleague (Emmanuelle Riva) brings her son home to live for the first time. Another girl (Gina Rovere) meets a local construction man willing to help her build a new life. Then, inescapably, the past looms up to destroy all hope for a better future...
...main pagodas. It was hardly a bed of nails. Their pallets were comfortable foam-rubber mattresses draped with mosquito netting. Beside the fasters were handy slices of fruit and glasses of pale, cold tea, prompting a young monk to explain that liquid was "allowed." As for the fruit-well, er, uh, no comment...
...ordered a new trial on the ground that Doyle had been unlawfully imprisoned because his court-appointed lawyer had had only a few hours to prepare a defense. In a scathing order, Craven told North Carolina that imprisoning rather than treating Doyle "is a little like throwing Br'er Rabbit in the briar patch." And he asked: "Is it not time to redraft a criminal statute first enacted in 1533? And if so, cannot the criminal-law draftsmen be helped by those best informed on the subject-medical doctors...