Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more complicated sketches, the ones played on a crowded and busy stage. No doubt a few of the awkward moments are the result of moving from story to play in the first place, but some are just as surely the product of the director's untidiness. Only in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" does Edgar manage to keep control over a number of actors moving at a frenetic pace...
...slip of the tongue. Unless the Administration is keeping a big secret, Johnson meant to say ''bombing...
Torture & Bankruptcy. While still rare, this strain of protest against a regime is being heard more often throughout Eastern Europe. In Hungary, a recent short novel described the torture methods of the secret police and another gave an insider's look at the bolshe vita of Communist fat cats in the early 1950s. There is also a Hungarian version of Catcher in the Rye, in which the author, a 17-year-old schoolboy, admits in disgust: "I can't stand it that the Americans announce the launching of a rocket a month before and the Russians only when...
Robert Stack, a freelance photographer on the loose in Red China, stumbles onto the secret of a long-buried treasure. Once back in Macao, he develops a case of justifiable paranoia when he is set upon by a chic Chinese princess (Nancy Kwan) who keeps sticking out her tong at him. Following this he is mugged and bugged by a vicious racketeer (Christian Marquand) and an avaricious police inspector...
Giving his customary plywood performance, Stack proves impervious to beatings, as well as to the entreaties of a bevy of stacked courtesans who try to vamp him out of the secret. His taste, it turns out, is strictly Occidental, and when he shares the discovery with Elke she flashes her smile and her decolletage and helps him uncover the loot. To no avail: the riches finally go into the Red when Mao's minions gun down the princess and the racketeer and force the inspector back to the West...