Word: lotus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways the high event of the festival, concerned an aging lecher whose strategy is to restore his virility by making himself jealous. According to that prescription, he virtually thrusts his daughter's fiancé into the arms of his own young wife (Machiko Kyo, whose musky, lotus-eyed sensuality was muffled in Rashomon). The young man is hardly more attentive to her than the camera, which pans up slowly on her nude body from feet to calves to knees to thighs to a lap dissolve. Topping that, the film contains what is probably the most uproarious juxtaposition...
...early, hectic jockeying, California's James Hughes missed a turn in his green Lotus, killed Photographer George Thompson of the Tampa Tribune, and then was killed himself as the car flipped onto its back. For six hours the Porsche team of German Cafe Owner Hans Hermann, 31, and veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gendebien, 36, patiently waited back in the pack. One by one the Ferraris broke down under the strain as the Maserati bellowed to a six-lap lead. But at 6:10 p.m., just as headlights flickered on, Moss eased his low-slung car off the course with...