Word: liana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows his name. Rubens presumably painted him for fun, for love of that gallant bronze head that seems to bear the fingerprints of God upon its temples. It is a speaking head, al though silent. And optimistic, too, against all odds. From that shadowed throat and those strong liana jaws, it speaks of life to men with a torn hope - to paraphrase a poem by Senegal's Léopold Sédar Senghor...
Dancing Girls, Fat. For total relaxation, few hotels in the world can compare with La Gazelle d'Or in Taroudant, where seclusion and discretion are maintained with almost maniacal determination. At $30 a day per person, a maximum of 40 guests sleep in cottages covered with bougainvillea and liana and surrounded by vegetation so dense that it is impossible to see from one cottage to the next. There are no radios at La Gazelle d'Or, no television sets; phones can be switched off, and the only prod to physical activity is a swimming pool-unheated. Compare that...
...phones downstairs to ask that the desk call back in exactly 38 minutes. Her cool acquiescence chills Mastroianni, and ultimately sends him to a sick psychiatrist whose advice is to love dangerously or not at all. Mastroianni's subsequent Misses and near-Misses include a lady lion tamer (Liana Orfei) who mixes her work with pleasure, an accursed village prostitute (Liana's cousin, Moira Orfei) whose customers tend to become accident prone, and a virginal golden beauty (Virna Lisi) who offers nothing more harrowing than a vow of chastity...