Word: quoi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here know only fishing," observed Hoang Quoi Hung, 47, a former seafood-industry official from Haiphong. "They think that any place they can fish is all right...
High cheek bones, an unplaceable accent and a general air of je ne sais quoi added up to just the "weird, transparent quality" Director Lewis Gilbert was looking for. That's why Barbara Bach, 27, a sometime actress in grade-B Italian movies like Spider with the Black Stomach, won her first starring role in the tenth James Bond film. Bach considers Bond "a male chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets." But she rather likes her liberated-woman role in The Spy Who Loved Me: Anya, a major in the Soviet secret service. Actor Roger...
...that the men's flabby clowning is not. Her blue-blooded New England accent, sharp and petted, is a perfect edge against Nicholson's nasal, sparwling diction and Beatty's bland tones (though she's mostly allowed to say things like. "You're so je ne sais quoi, I could just eat you!"). She has a great face, amazingly variable: she looks like the cherub on the Gerber Food labels. When she rages about boredom and neglect she might be indicting more than her costars. If Nichols had given her more to do she might have saved...