Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference, Mme. Nhu reverted to type and told reporters that the whole purpose of her trip was to clear up some of the "calumny" aimed at her homeland. She denied that her husband was head of the secret police, said that he has always helped the government without any compensation. Not only were her government's difficulties with the Buddhists created by the Communists, she said, but the first Buddhist monk who had burned himself alive had been drugged and the second clubbed into submission by fellow priests. Mme. Nhu also claimed that she had been misquoted when...
...Governor's wife was giving a fancy-dress ball, and she decided that the invitations should go out bearing the latest thing-postage stamps. The year was 1847, and stamps had just been authorized for the Indian Ocean colony of Mauritius, which her husband administered. So she asked that old, half-blind Mr. Barnard, the island's watchmaker, jeweler and amateur engraver, finish the island's first stamps as soon as possible...
...laughing because her husband (Laurence Harvey) is not dead. He pops in the front door, hangs a big fat buss on her happy face, tells her to come collect him as soon as she collects the insurance money, pops out the front door, hops a plane to Spain. Three months later, she hops one too. They meet in Malaga, two gay young things who propose to live happily ever after on their ill-got gains. After all, he reassures her, they haven't really committed a crime; they have simply enforced their rightful claim upon an insurance company that...
...soul of the allegory belongs to a pretty but apparently quite ordinary young Parisienne (played by Anna Karina, in private life the director's wife) who all at once experiences an intense compulsion to be or to become "somebody special." She abandons her young husband and their baby and takes a job as a salesgirl. Careless with money, she falls behind in her rent. Locked out of her flat, she spends one night with one young man, another with another. After a while, sick of being broke, she accepts some francs for her franchise. The money is nice...
This time Author Godden, 55, is addressing herself to the woman in early middle age who has had her children, has become bored with her husband and feels parched for romance. Fanny Clavering, a suburban English housewife, will do nicely. One evening Fanny goes to a dinner party in honor of the members of a film company who have been shooting a picture on location in the village. In midmeal the film's darkly brooding director, Rob Quillet, leans across the table and murmurs, "Is there a rose named Fanny Clavering? If there isn't, there ought...