Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...packs stagger up the sandy slope of a man-made pyramid in North Africa. If they falter they face further punishment. If they fall, they are doused with water and forced to continue until they collapse from heat, hate and exhaustion. The five, led by an insubordinate British officer (Sean Connery) and a black West Indian sneak thief (Ossie Davis), are prisoners in a British army stockade during World War II. The architect of their torture on the hill is a brutal sergeant major (Harry Andrews) who believes that any malefactor must be smashed flat if he is to shape...
...said, however, that Hill provides a significant change for Sean Connery fans everywhere. Rough as a thistle, sporting a mustache, he lends muscular presence to a conventional he-man role, and stirs up a hint or two that what has heretofore been sealed in Bond may be the screen's new Gable...
...sinister, SMERSH-type organization named Galaxy, which is bent on ruling the world. Gila is not hipped on personal combat, prefers to smear up the opposition with time bombs hidden in cold-cream jars. The most nonviolent Jane is Diane Cilento, the real-life Mrs. James Bond-or Mrs. Sean Connery to the literal-minded. In Once...
...musical, and I'd rather do a good story three times than a bad one once." He is staging a musical rendition of William Inge's Picnic (which he previously directed for Broadway and Hollywood). It is called Hot September and stars Kathryn Hays and Sean Garrison...
...Sean F. Mullan begins with a simple injection of anesthetic into the side of the neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms...