Word: gamiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyrics by George Kleinsinger & Joe Darion) celebrates Don Marquis' reasonably immortal archy and mehitabel. Supreme among literary cockroaches is the archy who typewrote free-verse memos to his newspaper-columnist "boss" by hurling himself head-downwards on the keys (though he could never manage capital letters). Gamest and gamiest of cats is the mehitabel that archy reported on, who insists that she was once Cleopatra and though bedraggled and back-alleyish now, is always a lady and toujours gai. The two friends are an easy pair to feel tender toward, but much less easy to endow with stage life...
Lady Chatterley's Lover, the gamiest gamekeeper in literature, tried to squeeze into New York State in the form of a French film adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's famed novel, with French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux as Lady Chat-terly, but was kept out by the New York board of regents. Condemning the entire movie as "immoral" in theme, the board said the film "glorifies adultery," presenting it as a "desirable, acceptable and proper pattern of behavior...
...Camera [Remus; DC A] focuses chiefly on the one-dimensional but fantastic adventures in Berlin of a thoroughly engaging British female named Sally Bowles. No item for the children, it is probably the gamiest as well as the wackiest picture of the year-a sort of surrealist, 100-proof binge, skillfully carried through by Julie Harris...