Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wiel protested that he had simply been driving Matje home from a confirmation class. Matje insisted that she had simply given the pastor a daughterly peck on the cheek. But the church elders measured the offense against Jesus' words that "one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Unless Van der Wiel publicly confessed his sin, they warned, "we will chase you out of town." To keep his job, Van der Wiel agreed to accept the punishment...
...Information Agency last week issued for public showing in 114 countries (but not the U.S.) a 90-minute documentary film, narrated by Gregory Peck, called John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums. Among selected U.S. audiences who were allowed to see the film, some persons who had been close to Kennedy felt that it reflected too much Hollywood gaucherie. But to most it brought unabashed tears...
...squealing girls. At Erie, a contingent of 63 teen-age Demzelles formed a corridor between Hubert's platform and his limousine, begged to be allowed to kiss him. Each got her wish as Hubert beamingly worked his way down the line, allowing all 63 girls a peck. It looked like more fun than kissing babies...
...Adolescent (shirttail flapping over tattered Levi's), the Blue-Blooded Aristocrat (cashmere sweater, flannel skirt, and a single strand of perfect pearls), the Walleyed Scholar (sloped shoulders, sensible shoes, and a pleated skirt left over from ice-hockey days), and the flocks of Amenable Parrots (kneesocks, muffler, a Peck & Peck raincoat, and a penny for every loafer). In their place these days is a sleekly feathered creature who swings her hair when she walks, wears no makeup, likes to go shopping in a suit that really has pants, and is apt to go dancing in a dress that suggests...
Behold a Pale Horse. The bigger they come the harder they pall. This picture, for instance, is very long and very expensive. It was constructed by an important moviemaker (Fred Zinnemann, who also directed From Here to Eternity and High Noon), and it contains an important cast (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif). But size, as the cannibal said while he munched the midget, isn't everything. Zinnemann's direction is occasional, his characters are trumpery and his actors obviously know it. Worst of all, though, is the picture's plot: something about a Spanish Loyalist guerrilla...