Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mad River Parties
...delightful. But Giraudoux's philosophical conclusion is not sanguine. His satire is too sharp, his villains too sinister, to lull us into sleepy security. Though evil may have been destroyed in the fantasy, Giraudox reminds us that, in real life, it is still attacking us, and that only the mad remain innocent. Love, like innocence, is elusive. Aurelie moans for her long-lost lover, Adolphe Bertaut, yet when he and all of the world's Adolphe Bertaut's offer themselves to her, she cries, "Too late!" In the world of fantasy, love triumphs, but in the real world...
GOLDFINGER. Another exuberant travesty of Ian Fleming's fiction has James Bond (Sean Connery) braving a mad Midas and some hilariously horrible sight gags...
GOLDFINGER. In another exuberant travesty of Ian Fleming's fiction, James Bond (Sean Connery) braves a mad Midas and some hilariously horrible sight gags...
...world has become all too stable for him: there has been no Korean or Suez crisis lately to drive up oil prices and tanker rates. Niarchos did make a bundle by hauling oil for the Russians, notably during the Cuban missile crisis. But some U.S. oil giants are mad at him for carrying cut-price Russian oil that undersold their own; they are at least informally boycotting Niarchos' vessels and building more and more of their own tankers. The Communists, instead of repaying Niarchos for past favors, are steadily gaining influence in some Greek seamen's associations, where...