Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, German-American relations resembled nothing so much as a late 18th century romantic novel, with a fluttery maiden (the Federal Republic), a sometimes cold lover (the U.S.), with dialogue full of Sturm und Drang. Everytime a Senator would complain about the high cost of keeping six U.S. divisions in West Germany, shudders would run up Bonn spines. Every time the cold war would thaw a bit, Bonn would demand reassurance-once again -that permanent division of Germany would not be the price of a Soviet-U.S. rapprochement...
...about clean towels and dirty people in a New Orleans hotel is more worthy of a stopover than the book. The improvement is due mainly to Director Richard Quine's smoothly geared meshing of the various subplots and solid performances by Rod Taylor, Michael Rennie, Merle Oberon, Karl Maiden...
...about clean towels and dirty people in a New Orleans hotel is more worthy of a stopover than the book. The improvement is due mainly to Director Richard Quine's smoothly geared meshing of the various subplots and solid performances by Rod Taylor, Michael Kennie, Merle Oberon, Karl Maiden...
Room 1451 is occupied by Karl Maiden, a coxcomical klepto whose life is a dreary succession of practically empty wallets ("It's those damn credit cards!") until one day he sidles into the duke's suite and stumbles out with 1) a face that seems to have glimpsed the beatific vision, and 2) an attache case that contains the blackmail payments...
Matt, of course, considers the world well lost for lust, but when duty calls he says CIAo to all that and flips off to forestall a mad master criminal (Karl Maiden) who is threatening to destroy the U.S. capital with a death ray and then take over the world. At first, Matt seems to have met his match. The vil lain has at him with a flamethrowing cigarette lighter, a high-explosive lavaliere, and a jolly pink giant of a bodyguard (Tom Reese) with a shiny steel plate in the top of his skull that looks like a chromium yarmulke...