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SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style) again turns Sicilian social codes inside out in this tragicomedy about the violent aftermath of a provincial maiden's misstep...
...barometric pressure. In its last weak form, the wave can cover thousands of miles before it becomes too faint for microbarographs to distinguish it from natural variations of atmospheric pressure. The U.S. undoubtedly had many seismographs and microbarographs stationed around China to be on the alert for its maiden test...
...maiden public flight the A11 clearly demonstrated the agility and speed that will be the hallmark of to morrow's interceptor. But even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...
...HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The Beatles hit their nimble stride in a smooth, fresh, unexpectedly funny comedy that is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and then some...
Need something for an elderly maiden aunt? Here is romantic pish-tush, complete with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations...