Word: rodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. The ways of maids and men-about-Manhattan are explored once more, but Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson nip through this will-she-or-won't-she farce with contagious exuberance...
...flashed on the screen as a teaser, "is dedicated to the proposition that every girl gets . . . sooner or later." As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot-more to be pitied than censored-gets a buoyant lift from Stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world...
...with him or not?" Not, sniffs Robertson, a chaser who has remained chaste. Then his favorite dish (Jo Morrow) arrives for breakfast, and off they go into the wild blue of a running gag about brother and his broad in search of a bed. Meanwhile, Jane picks up Rod Taylor and decides that she had better start conforming without further delay to contemporary standards of morality...
...guide poled the boat over, and I thought I had him. 'No,' said the guide. 'He'll go again.' The second time, the fish really let go. He went out and back and then under the boat, and I had to put the rod under, too." Continues Sam, modestly: "No one could have caught that fish unless he was an experienced fisherman. It took me 25 minutes to bring...
...anything under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed a 1,235-lb. black marlin off Peru. And what does...