Word: mink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other notable current movies: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, Circle of Deception...
...member of the musteline family (mink, marten, mongoose, badger, weasel, skunk), the otter is essentially "a big water weasel"-most northern breeds reach the size of a spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even...
Other notable current movies: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink...
...sprinkling her conversation with Italianisms, rolling her r's across the room. After taking a college course in elementary French, Brother George recalls, she suddenly stopped spelling her name Leontine, replacing the i with the y that she still uses. Says a friend: "Sometimes she can be all mink and ermine, and the next minute she'll be plain old southern Mississippi." But the southern Mississippi usually pops out first. After her Met debut she encountered Metropolitan General Manager Rudolf Bing backstage. He asked how she was. "Mr. Bing," said Leontyne, "I'm havin' a ball...
Other notable current movies: Russia's poignant Ballad of a Soldier, Britain's larcenous comedy, Make Mine Mink; the spy thriller Circle of Deception...