Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spiritually speaking, Pike "went over the wall. I was a free guy. It was glorious. I was vaguely a humanist, caring about good causes and truth, but the religious question didn't concern me. I wasn't antichurch; I just dropped out." He went on from U.S.C. to gain a doctorate in jurisprudence at Yale, and then to Washington to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938. "I was a fervent humanist when I went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans...
...enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working out. If an industrial giant (presented as a TIME cover subject) keeps a mistress, she is apt to be a glorious scatterbrain who ultimately meets a fellow of her own age and sends the giant back to his wife...
...heroine of this winsome French film is a cheeky septuagenarian who wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. In the title role, French Stage Star Sylvie, 81, develops a yen for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes, ends up spending 18 brief but glorious months of self-indulgence before death overtakes...
...faced bagman has brought off the hat trick. He has made a movie without spending money-in fact, he has made a movie without even making a movie. For about $66,000, advanced by Producer Henry Saperstein, Allen bought up a ludicrously lousy Japanese thriller that was made in glorious TohoColor and should have been confiscated as contraBond. For a couple thou on top of that, he eliminated some Japtrap, erased the Japanese talk track and dubbed in some English dialogue that transforms the story into Allengory and the characters into kooky-yacky...
...jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made up of 18 brief but glorious months of scandalous self-indulgence...