Word: mam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mam'zelle Pigalle: You criticize the people who make English subtitles for imported films. Granted, some of the idioms need to be made presentable, but are we being subjected to a panel of doting old hags and eunuchs? Surely the translators could have found a more appropriate translation for "Merde!" than "Ouch!" Ouch...
...Mam'zelle Pigalle (Films-Around-the-World), Brigitte Bardot's sixth major U.S. release, contains enough provocative photography to give a teen-ager the Brigitters and to accelerate his grandfather's Bardotage. Though Brigitte wears more than 15 costumes, one suitcase could easily carry the lot. When not wearing a bikini, she wriggles about in tutus, tights and gossamer nighties. Once she wears a pirate suit that is slashed at the most astonishing points...
...fearless, innocent eye of the barnstorming Victorians." The Daily Mail critic thought that Welles the adapter-director got in the way of Welles the actor, allowing "too many words to impede his action . . . But when the play does move . . . the whole theater shudders with the fury of man and mam mal alike...
...Manila last week, Shizuo Yokoyama, now 68 and tuberculous, plodded up a gangway, bowing and smiling, and boarded the Japanese steamer Hakusan Mam. With him on the way to Japan were 105 other war criminals, the last of the Japanese invaders to leave the Philippines. They too were a far different-looking lot from the domineering Japanese soldiers who once lorded over and terrorized the Filipino populace, and left behind 91,180 noncombatant Filipino dead. In a surprise amnesty, President Quirino (now in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital) had commuted 56 death sentences to life imprisonment in Japan...
...bridge of the 18,000-ton tanker Nissho Mam as she steamed into Tokyo Bay stood Captain Tatsuo Nitta, flashing a gold-toothed smile. He had just completed a three-week voyage from Abadan, bringing to Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...