Word: peas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This history of World War II shell-and-pea games might have been merely an oversized gathering of spy stories. But there is far more seething below the surface of espionage and counterintelligence. According to British Journalist Anthony Cave Brown, the conflict was a looking-glass war whose cruel and brilliant espionage far outran the fabrications of le Carré and Eric Ambler...
...satisfied the wishes of the Western world's children. One hundred years after his death he remains the unsurpassed master of the fairy tale. Who has not smiled ruefully at the imperial victim of The Emperor's New Clothes, or identified with The Princess on the Pea? What youth remains ignorant of Andersen's articulate birds and magic elves? Yet, as Cambridge Professor Elias Bredsdorff brilliantly demonstrates, these creatures were the offhand productions of a vast and thwarted literary ambition...
...three sisters look like they have wandered out of an unsuccessful nursery rhyme. Auntie Pasta's striking pallor is accentuated by her puddle-blue coat and Auntie Awful is dourly dressed in pea green and black. Raima Evan's coy voice, which seems to pass through a kazoo, brings out the meddlesome but well-intentioned manner of Auntie Tomato...
...seen fit to honor International Women's Year with a lengthy cover story about "The New Beauties," [June 16] a group of young women whose only discernible asset is a pretty face. Now how about giving equal space to "The New Handsomes," about the equally vapid, pea-brained, nonsense-spouting but gorgeous young men of the world? I can hardly wait...
There is not a great deal to say about this pea-brained adaptation of a best-selling paperback by Xaviera Hollander, once secretary of the year in The Netherlands and, more recently, New York City's most prominent madam. In the old days, the book might have been called "spicy," delving as it does into the intimate details of the author's more elaborate entanglements. The movie-rated a no-risk R-is short on specifics of any sort and stringently unimaginative. If anything, it seems to be trying comedy, although not even that is certain...