Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garnished with green peas and celery, le grand visage stared out at the Japanese people from the cover of a new politico-nudie monthly magazine called Hoseki (Jewels). The outraged French ambassador, Francois Missoffe, complained to Japan's Foreign Office, calling the picture a "grave insult" to the honor of France and President Charles de Gaulle. Hoseki's managing editor Kozaburo Iga explained that his cover, titled "The Secret of Glory," was a "symbolic composite meant to congratulate the French President on his good health and a good healthy appetite." And the glorious girl? Well, said...
...Mancha. Cervantes had the seer's vision and the toughness of mind 40 know what was dead about his time. The age of chivalry did not realize that it was finished until it read its inspired obituary, Don Quixote. Thus it is a travesty to pretend to honor Cervantes with Man of La Mancha, a romantic operetta that resembles nothing so much as Don Quixote as it might have been written by Don Quixote...
...undefeated Indians are the first Ivy League team to win the trophy out-right since Princeton won in 1951. Yale tied for the honor...
Unhappily-and here's the twist-milord's lust for battle counts as nothing compared to the lust inspired in him by a winsome peasant girl, Rosemary Forsyth. He needs her, he explains, as he needs bread, sunshine, fire in winter. Honor. Well, blast honor. He claims the lass on the very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another...
...monstrous little eccentric he calls Mother (Amy Dolby). Booth plays a bungling British constable who sees all women as embodiments of virtue and makes his fortune by mistake. His principal errors involve: Stella Stevens, as a slatternly village dressmaker who tricks him into entombing her murdered husband; Honor Blackman, irrationally seductive as a mad neo-Nazi entomologist who breeds spiders the size of St. Bernards; and Shirley Jones, as a revolutionist who enlists Booth's aid to overthrow a Central American republic while pretending to make a movie about it. Comedian Lionel Jeffries labors throughout in four lunatic minor...