Word: minx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Dandin, is the decorous tale of a wealthy farmer who is all but cuckolded and constantly humiliated by his upper-class minx of a wife. The only novelty provided in its performance is an acting style that is resolutely anti-psychological. Each role is lustrously burnished; none is probed. No transistorized translation is offered with these plays, and to those who lack French, the language may sound like an LP record played at 78 r.p.m...
Beckett's men worked 80-to 90-hour weeks, applying Ford's "triangulation" approach to every aspect of the project. Similar components from a Ford car (Anglia) and two competitors (Volkswagen and Minx) were compared to determine the best possible combination. Says Beckett: "We always analyze the best in competitive products right down to the spot welds-you can always learn something from them...
Born. To Romy Schneider, 28, Austria's slinky movie minx, and Harry Haubenstock, 45, German theater director she married last July: their first child, a son; in West Berlin...
...life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like a wave crashing on a steep beach. Celia Johnson, as his wife, is as bleakly crisp as burnt bacon. However, Maggie Smith as Hilde is too much the calculating minx, seemingly unaware that the sliest seductive weapon of the young is youth...
...CLEOPATRA (Caedmon) is more than a little like Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. For the tyrannical pedant of phonetics, Henry Higgins, Shaw substitutes the philosopher-king of Rome. In place of the forlorn flower girl who must be passed off as a lady, the play offers an adolescent Egyptian minx who must be tutored in regality. The playwright's purposes are somewhat thwarted by this recording. Max Adrian is little better than a fashionably tailored verbal dandy, and an overagitated Claire Bloom is more often short of breath than breathless...