Word: ferally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heartland. Not many men have lived as fully and as widely as Guimarāes Rosa did in his 59 years. Born in the feral heartland state of Minas Gerais, he was a physician, veterinarian, herbist, linguist, diplomat and government official in charge of border affairs. Writing fiction was just another way of annexing experience, and he occupied his territory thoroughly and imaginatively. His novel Grande Sertào: Veredas, published in the U.S. in 1963 as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, is encyclopedic in its embrace of Minas Gerais ecology. Yet it is as exciting...
...time, Marines learned to look up to Krulak, whose persnickety preciseness had won him the mocking sobriquet of "The Brute" from Naval Academy classmates. Marines found the nickname appropriate. Merciless with incompetents, Krulak attracted feral loyalty as well as hatred. Early in his career he showed that there was nothing undersized about his brain. A specialist in the "dirty tricks" of unconventional warfare, he used hell-raising tactics on Choiseul Island during World War II to such advantage that the Japanese believed Krulak's Marine paratrooper battalion was a full division. At 43, he became the corps' youngest...
...without the sculptured monumentality of John Colicos' performance as Churchill. Though the part is essentially a great caricature of Churchill, Colicos turns the role into a realm. He achieves one of those memorable personifications where the actor imperceptibly fuses artifice and reality. He dominates the stage with feral tenacity, and there is an uncannily mnemonic effect in his feat of physical resemblance. The pudgy hands thrust the walking stick forward like an advance scout probing enemy territory; the pouty lips nurse the huge cigar; the gruff, lisping voice rasps out even cadences like waves beating on the shore. Many...
...QUEENS. Italy seems to make a cinematic specialty out of confecting De-cameron-]ike clusters of shorts from spun-out risque jokes. This is one of the better examples of the genre-with feral Monica Vitti, delectable Claudia Cardinale and regal Capucine...
...QUEENS. Italy seems to make a cinematic specialty out of confecting De-cameron-like clusters of shorts from spun-out risqué jokes. This is one of the best examples of the genre-with feral Monica Vitti, delectable Claudia Cardinale and regal Capucine...