Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinned Galahad. By this time his parents were separated, and young Che spent most of his time with his mother and her friends, who ranged the political spectrum from parlor pink to Moscow red. He battled in the streets against Dictator Juan Peron and played amateur rugby at top speed, wheezing to the sidelines from time to time for whiffs from the inevitable atomizer. He still bitterly recalls one violent episode from this period. Sitting in a Buenos Aires bar one evening, Che was annoyed when a U.S. merchant seaman made a pass at a girl near Che. Che tried...
...black-and-white photography is excellent, and it is to the credit of Director Jack Cardiff that he has used his Cinema-Scope cameras in sets seldom larger than the parlor of a miner's cottage, with none of the 40-foot ear lobes that sometimes result from wide-screen intimacy. Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling. The impact, of course, is twice as forceful as if the air had been filled with flying coal carts. Much...
...John O'Hara let him have two of each. Even so, the film is still too long by half. What seems like an hour at the outset is devoted to establishing the fact that the hero's parents are rich but plenty neurotic. It is a poor parlor psychologist who cannot deduce from this that Alfred, in an effort to outdo his father, will marry money (Joanne Woodward), win a position in a banking firm by saving its owner's grandson from drowning, devote himself single-mindedly to his career while his wife buckets around with...
...bitter West Virginia primary). But Jack Kennedy's presidential campaign, indeed his whole political life, has a quality rare in U.S. political history. He speaks with the voice of the remarkable Kennedy family, and the talkative Clan Kennedy speaks with authority for him from platform to parlor, from banquet to back room...
...laws are not immune to the sudden fevers: Bobby's wife Ethel, often accompanied by two or three of her older children, was a daily onlooker at the hearings last summer, well into the seventh month of her seventh pregnancy. When the Peter Lawfords encountered a new parlor game, Conversations,* it was only a matter of days before all the Kennedys were doing what comes naturally in all their parlors all over the U.S. And when Jack got into politics, the entire clan plunged in with him as quickly as they would join a family game of charades...