Word: languid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eleanora's aura of mature respectability, pitted against Jean-Louis' young yearnings, lends low-key drama to her languid, libidinous surrender. The violence in Summer comes with a hellish, heart-halting air raid at film's end, in which green-and-golden youth agonizes over red-and-black realities of war. The slaughter awakens in Trintignant compassion and duty; his suffering loses him Eleanora but gives him manhood...
Desai's mistake was to try to get elected deputy leader of Parliament, a post vacant since the death last March of Home Minister Govind Pant. Desai, though his manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...
BOTH admen and advertisers got their lumps from the British-born president of Lever Bros, of Canada, John C. Lockwood, 48. He told Toronto admen that their industry's output was "dull boring, unimaginative, uninspiring and languid" and that "the biggest hidden cost in marketing today is probably ineffective advertising." Contrary to many TV critics, Lockwood thinks advertisers pay "too little attention to their TV commercials and too much attention to the programs." Phony commercials Lockwood fears, have made cynics of housewives and schoolgirls alike will have "far-reaching detrimental effects" on the ad industry...
...first stop, Thailand, where the 59-year-old Indonesian's hobbies are by now well known, the King and Queen whisked him off to languid Chiang Mai, where 300 maidens danced prettily for the visitor. When ex-Beauty Queen Rajadaporn Srivichai proffered an orchid, Sukarno gallantly reciprocated with his own silk handkerchief. "You should enter the Miss Universe beauty contest," he told...
...evening - Actor-Playwright Micheal Mac Liammoir's account of the rise and fall, the life and letters, of Oscar Wilde. In the first half, Mac Liammoir offers a world all bons mots and boutonnieres, of the spotlighted esthete, of the lush poetry and the languid pose, of feats of personality and triumphs of playwriting. In the second half, which begins with Wilde's imprisonment, Mac Liammoir portrays the reviled man, the repentant sinner, the reproaches in De Profundis to his fellow sinner Lord Alfred Douglas, and the last salvation-seeking, wit-flecked Paris years...