Word: jades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephone booths (what woman leaves a regular earring on her telephone ear while calling?). Moreover, they argue - with some reason - that pierced earrings are by far the most attractive ones available. Fanciest are the ethereal antique candelabra and gypsy gewgaws, but most popular are the simple gold, pearl or jade "buttons" - perhaps be cause they do not catch on sweaters...
DARLING. Julie Christie's polished portrayal of the progress of a jet-set jade from obscurity to celebrity is irresistible in Director John (Billy Liar) Schlesinger's brittle satire...
DARLING. Julie Christie's polished portrayal of the progress of a jet-set jade from obscurity to celebrity is irresistible in Director John Schlesinger's (Billy Liar) brittle satire...
Darling is a bitter, glittering and sometimes stabbingly brilliant tale of a jet-set jade and how she grew. In quasi-documentary style, British Director John Schlesinger (Billy Liar) begins with a standard narrative device: a celebrated beauty spilling "My Story" to a magazine called Ideal Woman. Her name is Diana (Julie Christie), a sometime model, sometime bit actress, anytime trollop, whose face is her passport to the haut rnonde, where a legion of intimates come to know her as "Darling...
...Chavez, a captain more likely to buckle than swash, Quinn provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...