Word: freak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman of the title (Annie Girardot) is a freak: a poor thing covered from head to foot with a coat of long, brown, silky hair. The leading man (Ugo Tognazzi), a Neapolitan spiv, finds her working as a scullion in a convent kitchen. "Mamma mia!" he gasps. "She really looks like an ape. I could start a freak show and clean up." The idea scares her half to death. She's not very bright to begin with, and on top of that she is painfully ashamed of her affliction. But the spiv aggressively jollies her out of her objections...
...that a lot of race horses could catch Gun Bow, "but they was out of breath when they got there." See SPORT, "He's a Freak." How functional form has found new curves to swing by. See ART, Unframed Beauty...
...dear life. Gun Bow's margin at the wire: a widening ten lengths. Sighed Rival Jockey Bill Boland, whose own mount, Sunstruck, finished a full city block up the track: "When that horse runs his race, there's nothing alive can catch him. He's a freak...
...last week the freak was an odds-on favorite for yet another honor: the title of Horse of the Year, monopolized for four seasons by Mrs. Richard C. duPont's great gelding Kelso-whom Gun Bow will meet in the $100,000 added Aqueduct Stakes on Labor Day. (Last week Kelso demonstrated that he was ready for the encounter by tying the American record for 1⅛miles on the turf in a warm-up race at Saratoga.) Gun Bow had also changed owners again. Keeping a 40% interest for themselves, Albert and Mrs. Stanley sold the other...
...powerful army unit ordered by Tshombe to drive the rebels out of Stanleyville poised menacingly just across the Congo River from the city, then turned and beat one of the fastest retreats in history - 560 miles to the rear in one day. At another major town, when a freak lightning bolt blew up an army powder magazine, the terrified garrison, convinced it was surrounded, fired back - in every direction...