Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the way, lives conveniently intertwine like braids. The frustrated newlywed groom sleeps with a nubile teenager, and gets her pregnant. A wild shot in the dark kills a prowling Indian boy. His father, a Sioux chieftain, demands a life for a life, and the leader of the pioneers (Kirk Douglas) hangs the offender-who happens to be the adulterer-with his own hands. Widmark's son nobly proposes marriage to the teenager...
Producers are now furiously trying to groom new Coburn types, but his seamy-faced, hard-guy specifications are so disproportionate that it is a bit like trying to build a giraffe out of a Tinkertoy. He is 38, though his croppy thatch of sandy hair makes him look like a delinquent graduate student. A lean 6 ft. 2 in., he is a rangy tangle of angular limbs; in action, karate-chopping his way through a thicket of villains, he suggests Ichabod Crane doing the jerk...
...Road. In rural England, a husband and wife gaze out of their sports car at a bride and groom emerging from a church. She sighs: "They don't look very happy." He snaps: "Why should they? They just got married...
...campus, the president is expected to be all things to all men-fund raiser, politician, scholar, pressagent, long-range planner, public speaker, banqueteer with a cast-iron digestion. Another problem is that few schools like the idea of a built-in successor. If an outgoing president tries to groom an up-and-coming administrator as a potential heir apparent, says Stanford Graduate Business Dean Ernest Arbuckle, "that can be the kiss of death." Many otherwise qualified professors consider an administrative job as "going over to the enemy"-and claim that they can make more money staying where they are. Because...
...spins around like a carrousel. As Director Gower Champion realized, every bit of added motion is essential, since the plot is mired in a clicheland where the journey through life is so predictable that it seems exactly like going nowhere. It begins with Wedding-Night Jitters. Yes, the new groom is frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their bare feet. Comes the nine-month dawn, or Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston...