Word: simpatica
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...straight shooter, but Barbara Bach is playing a tough-minded Yugoslav partisan about to help some British soldiers blow up a bridge. The film: Force 10 from Navarone, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. Says Bach: "I enjoyed being the only woman among all those simpatici men." So simpatica was Bach that the screenwriter built up her role. In fact, Author MacLean, on a visit to the set, showed some surprise that his movie had a female lead...
...islands. Then back in Puerto Rico, she settled down to the real business of her trip, lunched in a tobacco factory, scrutinized children for undernourishment, visited the slums, grinned at housewives who benevolently waved at her with chunks of relief-administered salt pork, and murmured ecstatically, "Que Simpatica! Que Carinosa!" (How understanding! How lovely...
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