Word: maidening
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...Hard Day's Night will move one young segment of its audience to tears, hysteria and even outright unconsciousness. More than a movie, it is the answer to a maiden's prayer. Surprisingly, though, this hairy musical romp starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr-yclept the Beatles-is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. It seems better than it ought to be simply because the Beatles prove themselves disarming personalities...
Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons in 1900-when Victoria was still Queen and Gladstone had been gone only five years. Almost immediately he became one of its storm centers. His views were often heretic, often changed-and often right. In his maiden speech, he bolted Tory doctrine to argue-ironically-against trying to match the power of "the clanking military empires of the European continent." Shortly afterward he bolted the Conservative Party itself, joined David Lloyd George's Liberals, only to return 20 years later, completely unabashed: "Anybody can rat, but it takes a certain...
...film as in the book, the heroine is a maiden named Karana, the daughter of a Chumash chief. When the chief and most of his warriors are slaughtered by a treacherous fur trader, the discouraged remnant migrates to the mainland. But Karana's little brother misses the boat. "He will die!" Karana screams as she leaps from the ship's dory and strikes out for the shore...
...without sentimentality and a moral without a lecture. This time they also provide some smashing scenery-the Anchor Bay country of northern California-without too pointedly stopping to stare at it. And they provide two remarkably attractive performers. Celia Kaye, in her first film, makes the most charming Indian maiden since pretty Red Wing. And the actor who plays the mongrel-his name is Junior, and he is the son of the dog who played Old Yeller for Walt Disney-possesses a distinction rare in cine-mutts: he is a dog who is just plain...
Most of the province is securely in Viet Cong hands, but under Lieut. Colonel Raymond Call of the U.S. Special Services, three "oil stains" or advance bases were set up in the Viet Cong territory under Black Virgin Mountain, named for a black-clad maiden who, fable says, leaped to her death from its heights. Colonel Call was determined to make the Viet Cong pay for the lives they had taken and to gradually merge the oil stains...