Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) hazards a fling with a sometime musician (Steve McQueen), and this tough-minded little comedy takes it from there, neatly improvising on a humdrum theme.
To U.S. officials who have conferred with him, though, Brezhnev seems articulate, well informed, open-minded. In conversation with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg last May, Brezhnev agreed that most Soviet buildings are hideous, volunteered that the regime plans to send young architects abroad to study.
This tampering with history might be dramatically justified if it were amusing or ironic or revelatory, but Josef D. incessantly lectures and never electrifies. Chayefsky misdirects his own work, injecting group chorales and Brechtian-inspired political satire in which inane bourgeois messily cut their own throats onstage. Peter Falk'...
Ornithology & OSS. Ripley is certainly no triumph of taxidermy. Science-minded since youth, he made his first field trip at 13 when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future...
Most of all, de Gaulle suspects that if he can offer economic support and an attractive political alternative to the single-minded leadership of Moscow or Washington, many Latin American nations would consider joining him.