Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Auntie Mame, and now the forever irrepressible Rosalind Russell is gallivanting around with a bunch of goats in her latest comedy. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. Roz plays the part of a gadabout middle-aged American tourist who leads a double life as a CIA courier carrying secret microfilm. Nabbed by Communist agents on one such mission, she escapes by hiding among a herd of goats. The animals, mostly pets of children in Wyoming where the scene was shot, proved to be unruly hams before the camera. Said the slightly battered actress afterward: "I've been butted around before...
Last spring a special faculty-student-administration panel recommended that the labs gradually start new programs in domestic and social research, while reducing secret military work and rejecting "projects involving the actual development of a prototype weapons system, except in times of grave national emergency." The panel also urged the university to set up a standing committee of faculty, students and lab staffers to advise M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson on which projects the labs should accept or continue to pursue. The recommendations pleased the moderate majority of M.I.T.'s faculty, which last month voted...
...learns that the Germans are coming to take over the town and its only treasure, vino. Bombolini, the town drunk, is hastily proclaimed mayor. His single responsibility: to hide a million bottles of vermouth. His metamorphosis from clown to hero -and what he does with the wine-provides The Secret of Santa Vittoria...
...extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race of sheep." By going to the source. The Secret of Santa Vittoria shows why he lost that race-and why Italy, host to invaders and tyrants for 2,000 years, has managed to endure and to survive them...
...aside to Cervantes, the ringmaster unveils the secret of his own technical trickery, the warping of time, the myth turned real and reality fantasized. "Your stories also exemplified the dual nature of all good narrative art: they sallied forth against adolescent thoughtmodes and exhausted art forms, and returned home with new complexities." Although Coover is often tediously complex, there is a certain madness in his method that just as often delights...