Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Golden Gun, Fleming...
...third European Jane is Italy's Rossana Podesta, who appears in The Seven Golden Men as a member of an international gang of bank robbers. In a Goldfingerish effort to rob the vaults of Geneva's Union de Banques Suisses, she is a glowing decoy, dressed in a luminescent lace leotard and equipped with a lipstick microphone, a powder-case television eye, and a sapphire clip that turns out to be a two-way radio...
...WITH THE GOLDEN GUN by Ian Fleming. 183 pages. The New American Library...
...golden twilight of the 19th century, most U.S. artists were mainly tourists. They had succumbed to what Henry James diagnosed as "the great American disease, the appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene...
...does Joe. The poor scared creature lives a life of adolescent fantasy. "In his thoughts he went walking down Park Avenue. Rich ladies looking out their windows swooned to see a cowboy there. A butler tapped him on the shoulder, an elevator whirred him up to a penthouse, a golden door opened into a large apartment carpeted from wall to wall with soft brown fur. Madame was wearing scanties covered by a sheer black negligee. Quivering with desire, she threw herself onto the soft floor. He took her. The butler handed him a signed check on which the amount...