Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscar Wilde, in adversity, might call shallowness "the supreme vice"; but shallow-ness-a wonderfully rewarding shallow-ness-is what went deepest in him. And much more than when sincerely contrite, he is tragic in the superb gallantry of such humor as when, standing handcuffed in the pouring rain, he murmured: "If this is how Her Majesty treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any." By omitting such touches and emphasizing Wilde's plangent side, and by himself-if often eloquent-being often florid, Mac Liammoir piles Pelion upon Oscar, and turns what he dubs...
Wintery Hyperbole. Waving an unlit blue cigarette in a holder, she pops her eyes, works her mouth into exotic shapes from figure eights to dodecahedrons, now and then poking forth a grooved tongue until she seems to be a rain-spouting functional gargoyle held up by a wildly flying buttress. All of this, including her guffaws between jokes, is merely punctuation. Phyllis Diller is not just a buffooning grotesque. Her form of comedy is even older than she is. and it runs counter to the trend of modern, storyline comedians, but her hard, calculatedly frenzied style goes over brilliantly...
Fair in the morning, with increasing cloudiness in the afternoon, followed by snow or rain in the evening. Highest temperature in the lower 40's. Increasing southeasterly winds in the afternoon...
...feet endlessly sambaing built a solid wall of sound. In the midst of the jammed dancers, 24-year-old Gilda Lopes, clad in a Queen of Sheba wisp of gauze and sequins, shimmied deliriously on a table top, drinking in masculine ogles as a parched field drinks the spring rain. She lost not a beat as she explained her costume: "It's like the one Lollobrigida wore in the movie, except that Gina had a lot more pearls and a ruby in her navel. In Rio it's too hot for rubies...
...weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies and ordering maneuvers on the next fair day after rain...