Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ASSASSINATION BUREAU. Looking for something to take the family to on a rainy Saturday afternoon? This is it. The kids will love all the improbable derring-do, and parents may find themselves getting an occasional laugh out of all the frantic proceedings...
SWEET CHARITY. Shirley MacLaine is sometimes cute, sometimes arch in this overblown musical about a dance-hall hostess searching for love. A lot of money and a lot of energy have been expended on this superproduction, and most of both has gone to waste...
...holiday, both seasonal and pagan, May Day goes back thousands of years. Some remnants of this ancient past still survive: on May Day, French gentlemen give their ladies bouquets of lilies of the valley. In Greece, doors and balconies are decked with floral wreaths. In Czechoslovakia, traditional vows of love are exchanged...
...Valley, a place of running streams and slow canals northeast of London, and almost from the moment he was born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched a pencil...
...life as in his art, Constable was a late bloomer. At the age of 33, he fell in love with Maria Ricknell, the 21-year-old granddaughter of a crusty, wealthy Stour Valley rector, who threatened to cut her out of his will if she married the impecunious painter. Prudently, Constable and Maria waited seven years. Finally, in 1816 his father died, leaving him with enough of an inheritance at 40 to marry and support a wife and children (they had seven). Virtually all Constable's greatest paintings were done after his marriage...