Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frigid lunar night finally ended, sunlight once again splashed its warmth on the man-made visitor, Surveyor I. After its two-week hibernation at -250° F., the spaceship showed no sign of reviving. Its receiver, turned on ever since it landed on the moon almost four weeks before, seemed incapable of picking up radioed signals and translating them into the commands that would awaken the space traveler's other instruments. Day after day, the scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena tried to make contact; day after day, their only response was silence...
...Russians in their poker-face view of the European future. Yet troop presence remains at the very heart of Europe's past history and future development. Both of the world's two great powers have every reason to want their soldiers out of the frigid zones of occupation. In Paris last March, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin announced: "The War saw Pact nations will either reduce their military forces or even abolish them if a corresponding move is undertaken by the NATO allies in West Europe." Moscow quickly quenched any flaming hopes over that issue by reiterating its hard...
Here's the action: maid Celestine (Moreau) arrives in Normandy from Paris, to work at a manor. Immediately begins a tableau of lives ruled and twisted by the sexual impulse. The lady of the manor is conspicuously frigid, her husband (brilliantly acted by Michel Piccoli) comically virile. "Watch out for that guv." Celestine is warned, "with him: one shot--POW!--a baby...
What galled Lille was the frigid Gaullist disregard of the need for French industrial expansion-a common complaint of voters in last December's close presidential election. "The image of the industrial north as a self-sufficient, rich region is little more than a myth," complained a Chamber of Commerce speaker at the luncheon for De Gaulle. "The internationalizing of modern Europe should force France into relying on the few strong regions she possesses, giving them a better chance of catching up with the European industrial level. Due to their economic policies, Belgium and Holland have attracted a great...
More than anything, unshakable performances keep The Group going strong. As the bride Kay, who ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank...