Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minimal terrors of a de luxe beauty salon where she helps refinish the surfaces of wealthy, parchment-faced matrons. In the street outside lies a world of hot-mouthed males whose attentions send her into panicky flight. Every night in bed she waits, staring, petrified, until her uninhibited sister (Yvonne Furneaux) and a married lover come home to curdle a young girl's blood with their noisy nocturnal diversions...
...this simplified sexual interpretation of psychosis, no attempt is made to explain behavior except through the familiar device of a family portrait in which one sister stands aloof and stricken, while the other lies draped seductively over her father's knees. Writer-Director Polanski nonetheless makes his fair murderess seem authentically tragic, herself the most pitiable victim of the evil she does. Whether such a film finally serves any purpose other than to scare people silly remains doubtful, yet in the long tradition of cinematic shockers, Repulsion looms as a work of monstrous...
...that every generation endures. The best of the film is seen through the eyes of Andrea's ebullient small son Sandrino (Edoardo Nevola), a lad who must learn to live among fallen idols. The boy's tongue-tied despair is eloquent when he comes upon his married sister in a parked car arguing with a stranger. So is his quiet exultation when he accompanies his father to the wineshop where former friends awkwardly welcome him back to the company of men. All of it seems familiar, all of it quickened by a thorny sense of truth. Railroad...
...Chief Executive for her course on "the American President," Lynda Bird Johnson reported that it was "awfully good" to be back at the University of Texas for her senior year after two worrisome, unprivate semesters at George Washington University just down the street from the White House. But Sister Luci Johnson, 18, still commuting to school from her folks' place on Pennsylvania Avenue, found the whole thing a little scary as she put on her freshman beanie to begin studies at Georgetown University's School of Nursing. Luci relaxed a little when the hazing student nurses...
...Blue Cockatoo in Chelsea and then as wine steward at the Hertford Hotel in London's Bayswater. Finally the noblesse paid off. To celebrate his promotion to "joint head barman" at the hotel, "Mr. Tony," whose cousin, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, is the husband of Jackie Kennedy's sister, Lee, stirred up a dry martini. Said he: "I pride myself on knowing how to make them...