Word: frogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today the designer who has most faithfully interpreted classic Chinese styles is a Cuban-born American: Adolfo. His fall collection is heavy on crocheted pajamas and slim, high-collared cheongsam dresses in clingy silk knits with side buttoning and frog fasteners down the front. The look, Adolfo allows, "is very sexy. It is cut to show the fanny, and if you have a little tummy, it shows that too. Men like it very much." So does the Duchess of Windsor, who was carried away by a polka-dotted sheath at an Adolfo show...
...candle power, the dimmer the biographer need be. As proof, see Donald Zee's Sophia (McKay; $8.95). By now, Sophia Loren's ascent from the rubble of Naples to the gold of Carlo Ponti should be as familiar as the tale of the princess and the frog. But to Zec, a British journalist, each incident, each phrase, is worthy of a marble bas-relief: " 'Sometimes I felt I wasn't having the baby for Carlo; I was having it for the world,' smiled Sophia." After such reportage, an audience cannot be blamed for doubting even...
...unfinished business seemed just the point: that the French dope dealer so passionately pursued by the American cops could slip smoothly away through a massive stakeout and leave the country. The Frenchman was the source connection responsible for bringing in vast quantities of heroin from Marseille to New York. Frog One, Popeye Doyle called him, and the fact that he could get away nearly unruffled, meant simply that the law could never catch up with the main...
...regular good-will ambassador from New York's finest. "I'd rather be a lamp post in New York than the President of France," he snarls at his Gallic counterpart (Bernard Fresson), who is supposed to cooperate with Doyle's mis sion: to run Frog One to ground...
...keep his voice down--sometimes he screams to provoke his diffident witnesses, sometimes he just chortles in glee. "There are too many clues in this room" he sings out in a high-pitched warble as he makes his first inspection of the murder room. Throughout, a heavy Anglo-Frog accent blankets his speech, sometimes making him difficult to understand. Most of the other actors manage to sound vaguely foreign without making their speech an impediment, and Finney is to blame for his bizarre patois...