Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad enough, too, not only for a polished politician with the all-American looks of Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield or a self-made millionaire like Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, but also for the first popularly elected Negro Senator in U.S. history, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke*: for the son of Greek immigrants, Maryland...
VISITORS are invariably shocked. They see Americans cheerfully discarding cars, refrigerators or washing machines from which a French peasant, say, or a Greek shopkeeper would still get years of use. They are amazed at the serviceable suits that an American sends off to the Salvation Army the minute an elbow gives way or a knee frays. Tin cans that would roof a million Caribbean cottages are tossed onto scrap heaps. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and replaced by new ones with an economic life expectancy of only 50 years. Waste, outrageous waste, cry the critics-and by no means...
...play, for it is also a drama about passion as a prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes of her 15-year-old daughter (Maria Tucci...
...fleet to 1 ships totaling 1,300,000 tons. By mid-1968, when nine other ships will have been launched, Bergesen's fleet will have doubled in size, surpassing in tonnage the entire 1 13-tanker fleet of The Netherlands and matching the present-day armadas of his Greek rivals, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos...
Lotsa tararara here. All about shooting multimillion-dollar movie epic. Called Helen of Troy. Greek island location. Nine million-dollar budget. Already $5,000,000 over that. Disaster. Fault of Superstar Margaret Dayton. She disappears. How to render Margaret: get the way she fills the blue jeans. Banal but central. She has one hell of a behind. But remember: a schoolgirl animated by sex. Tell about Margaret's sex life. Husband's. Mama's. Producer's. Director's. Agent's. Co-star's. Don't forget character with shoe fetish...