Word: frightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bond's dry-land conquests were somewhat zingier type in Goldfinger, but in Thunderball he manages a change of pace by joining Largo's seaworthy French playmate (Claudine Auger) for an amorous exploit down among the corals. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he quips afterward, wading ashore. Alas, even subaqueous sex cannot keep the formula entirely fresh. Yet, if Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. He is hilariously astringent when he drops a limp...
...before, by local belief, demons of death stalked the village of Sotouboua (pop. 500) in northern Togo. Streets were deserted, and only the throb of a tom-tom broke the still ness. Next day the men of the village sallied forth to perform the ritual that is supposed to frighten demons away. Some wore fluttery feather headdresses and grotesque carved masks; others chewed the bark of a native bush until the drool stained their chins a deep orange color. Several of them gripped snakes and rats between their teeth...
Friday, November 19 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). 'The Cherry Blossom Affair." A Japanese film producer helps Solo and Illya search for a new Thrush device that is designed to frighten countries prone to volcanic eruptions. Color...
...Atropos with her shears, Time with his scythe, the Pale Horse and Rider of the Apocalypse, the grinning skeleton at the revels of Everyman-and the God of Judgment-have maintained their power on earth, to frighten man and elate him, to drive him to noble works and to dreadful deeds...
...Kiev." But his hope is as large as his grief: "I firmly believe that man will triumph, and not the ape. I believe that Russia will enter the new century liberated and renewed in spirit, and that by then. Communism will only be a nursery bogey to frighten our grandchildren." As Tarsis proclaims through another character: "Haven't you noticed there are more and more of us? We are thousands today, we'll be millions tomorrow. We don't advertise our presence, but we are there. We'll get together and we'll light such...