Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driver's seat, it goes without saying, sits that gadget-gaga gumshoe, Tames Bond (Sean Connery). "Ta-ta," he chortles as he charges full throttle into his latest caper. Poor James. Little does he know that he is about to encounter the grand master of all master criminals, "the most evil genius he has ever faced": Auric Goldfinger...
VIVE MOI! by Sean O'Faolain. It took this Irish novelist 30 years to come to terms with his provincial Irish upbringing; in an engaging autobiography, he records the dilemma of a man forever "impaled on one green corner of the universe...
...woman. Rustle, crackle and swish!" bellows Ralph Richardson. Nothing could be easier for Gina Lollobrigida. As the nurse assigned to a crotchety British tycoon who spends his days in a wheelchair, Gina soon rustles the old gent into a marriage proposal. She gets the idea from his sexy nephew, Sean Connery-an actor who occasionally takes leave of his James Bond roles, only to find that crime pays equally well elsewhere. Just as one might expect, Sean and Gina plan to share the inheritance once Richardson kicks off. Just as one might expect, he kicks off unexpectedly. Poisoned...
VIVE MOI!, By Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist and essayist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can quite achieve in cold type. The result is a fever chart of an overworked Catholic conscience, and a collage of the scenes of an Irish childhood...
...parish church, young Sean would kneel by the hour before a "full-sized carved and colored figuration of Purgatory," praying most particularly for "the girl highest in the group, always almost redeemed, her long, fair hair always falling to her waist, her manacles always already parted, her uppermost hand always just out of reach of the Divine Child's foot." O'Faolain's father was "absolutely loyal to the Empire, as only a born hero-worshiper can be," and after Sunday services Sean would accompany him to the British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch...