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Daisies is a chronicle of the adventure of two young girls, both named Mary. Deciding, "if everything's spoiled, we'll be spoiled too," they set out to engorge the world, sponging lavish meals off of older men, then tricking their benefactors onto departing trains. Much of the film documents...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Daisies | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

On the surface, the two Marys might appear to be the protagonists in a Beckettian drama: their personalities are as vacuous, as interchangeable; their dialogue has the same tentative, despairing quality. ("We are happy," one Mary says. "We are really and truly happy. Aren't we?" Are we really pretending...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Daisies | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

Luther O'Flaraty and Ambassador Stephanos arrived. Georgio, after four bloody marys, felt gay. Host, as Honey-Lou hadn't returned from the airport--her friend the President of Texas University had had to be seen off--Georgio gave O'Flaraty tips on where to send volunteers in Mexico. He...

Author: By Bel Dahm, | Title: This is supposed to be revealing. It's not. | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

In New Orleans, for instance, there will be a brunch in honor of one or another New Orleans debutante every Sunday from now through Mardi gras. "I think people got tired of cocktail parties," says Mrs. Max M. Green, who gave a deb brunch at the New Orleans Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Sunday Brunch | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Increasingly, the booze is vodka, which for the past six years has shown the fastest-growing sales for liquor in the U.S. Businessmen like it in lunchtime martinis, in Bull Shots or Bloody Marys, because it leaves no after-breath. Purists are learning to drink it the way the Poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drink: What's In | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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