Word: gael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out, Fianna Fail captured 75 seats in the 144-seat Dail, or Parliament, three more than it had before. The equally conservative opposition party, Fine Gael, won 50 and Labor only 18. The result confirmed Lynch, a compromise choice for his party's leadership in 1966, as Taoiseach (chief of the clan) in his own right-and that the Irish are not yet ready for new departures...
...Based on a novella by Violette Leduc, a gifted French writer who is an admitted lesbian, the film tells the old story of homosexual love between school chums. Therese is played by Sweden's pouty-lipped Essy Persson, and Isabelle by France's blonde, big-eyed Anna Gael. They make love with their clothes on in a toilet cubicle and the school chapel, and with their clothes off in bed and in the woods. There is also a prolonged bout of autoeroticism and, just for variety, one heterosexual encounter; a voice-over narrative explains, in Leduc...
Metzger plowed some $500,000 of it back into pay dirt to shoot Therese and Isabelle in France. It has much of the patina of a real movie, even though Actress Gael looks anything but a schoolgirl with her eyeliner and bottle-blonde tartiness. But Essy Persson, the woman in Woman, does manage a plausible interpretation of a troubled teenager, and Metzger has taken enough pain's with his brooding photography to let at least some of the spectators kid themselves into believing that they have come to an art house to see some...
...narrowly linguistic," Kelleher added. Dunn's life work is a literary history of the 12th century. He has divided his research between medieval literature and modern Celtic folk cultures. Besides a number of articles and translations. Dunn has written two full books: Highland Settler: A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia and The Foundling and the Werwolf: A Literary-Historical Study of Guiliamume de Palerne...
...Meath, the loser claimed that mental patients in Mullingar hospital, allowed to vote for the first time, had been subject to undue influence by their doctors. With three seats subject to recount, at week's end Lemass' Fianna Fail held 71 seats, a rise of one; Fine Gael, 46. Labor won 21 seats and Independents captured three. With almost half of the 144 seats in the Dail and the support of at least one independent, Lemass could govern Ireland-but just barely...