Word: fathomless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled that their son Richy (Bobby Alto) is breaking up with his wife Joan (Candy Azzara) after only six years of marriage. The elders try to patch things up. But incompatibility and compatibility are equally obscure. Richy's and Joan's reasons for divorcing are as fathomless as Frank's and Bea's for staying married. It is all part of the mysterious human comedy, enriched by the quietly commanding achievement of Richard Castellano's performance as Frank. Pouch-eyed and beer-bellied, he looks, talks and acts just like Paddy Chayevsky's Marty...
...Legs," which is, after all, as good a nickname as any for a girl whose 5-ft. 10-in., 105-lb. body is supported on what appear to be stilts, moored at the bottom to size 8½ feet. With a physique like that-and an oval face with fathomless, huge brown eyes to go with it-it was perhaps inevitable that Penelope Tree, 17, should emerge as the brightest new model and the likely successor-at least conversationally-to Twiggy...
...this has a familiar purr. The beautiful women now have names like Brooke Hayward and Senta Berger, but the whole scene recalls the young Boyer of Algiers, the fathomless possibilities of Hedy Lamarr, and the line he is legendary for whispering to her: "Come wiz me to zee casbah." Actually, there was no such line in the movie, nor in any other movie Boyer ever made. It came from an old comedy-radio show. But Boyer wears it gracefully...
...born in Madagascar and reared in Rangoon. It was easy enough to believe. After two martinis and an expense-account steak, Barbra's Pharaonic profile and scarab eyes suggest the Aswan High Dam, Nefertiti, and the whole Afro-Asian bit. Some minor poets have even brooded over her fathomless Mesopotamian stare, as if her unique countenance could only have developed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In truth, however, she was born and raised between Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal...
Pursuing V., the author leads a phantasmagoric tour through the dream country of the past in a series of darkly illumined flashbacks. At one point, V. is in Florence in the midst of fathomless political conspiracies; at another, she is in South West Africa during the brutal repression of the natives during the '20s. All clues finally lead to Valletta, where V., disguised as the Bad Priest, is injured in a World War II air raid and is disassembled by a band of children: her glass eye is stolen; her false feet of amber and gold, with veins...