Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of this Dracula, oddly enough, is not the hero of Romania's early struggles for independence who gives it its title, but Catherine Dean, the Victorian heroine. Her willingness to act to the hilt--even in delivering lines on the order of "What were you doing over there with papa and the hammer and that horrible wooden stake?"--is astonishing. It's a willingness understandably not shared by most of the rest of the company--they have lots of lines like "I broke in when I heard the dogs howling" and "How is your daughter and her 'nervous prostration...
...future Scotsman" is a fairly fantastic bucko named Jack, who believed himself to be an Irishman until he was 20 and played the part to the Abbey Theater hilt. Though he grew to only 60⅜ inches and had to dye his hair red, Jack strutted through life indulging in "imitation Irish ultimating" (like his 6 ft. 3 in. father), gloriously using the world as his straight man. "An Irishman," Jack concludes, looking back to lost innocence, "can get by with things another...
...other (and the only satire with any bite) is a runaway mix of The King and I and Chinese Revolutionary Opera called "The People's Opera Glorifying Revolutionary Heroes One-Eyed Jack and Toronto." With Red Flags and posters of Mao, it plays the stereotypes to the hilt, and with saving grace, perceptibly manages to suggest that Nixon and Kissinger were conned like a bunch of yokels last year by the ceremonious hoo-hah of their Chinese hosts...
...scriptures muddled Raymond Chandler's impeccable crafted lines of action, this film is as much fun as anything Bogart starred in. He's a more glib and humorous hard-boiled dick than Chandler's Philip Marfowe, but the entire film is played for laughs--and played to the hilt by Lauren Bacall and Elisha Cook, among others...
Juan Perón, home in Buenos Aires after 17 years in exile, was playing the game of elder statesman to the hilt. For a time last week it appeared that he had convinced many of Argentina's major political parties to join with him in forging an unbeatable coalition for the general elections next March. But the coalition came apart almost as quickly as it had been formed, and there were rumblings of even more difficult times to come for el Lider. As one diplomatic observer put it: "Perón thought he could absorb Argentina; instead, Argentina...