Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hecht-Hill-Lancaster's Cry Tough, a rough and rumble film about Puerto Ricans in New York, includes a scene in a bedroom occupied by Actor John Saxon and Actress Linda Cristal. In the U.S. she appears in a slip, but the version shot for export confines her wardrobe to one small pair of black panties, and allows the camera to meander athletically where it will. 'Everybody was kind of nervous" about Cry Tough's potential box office, explained one behind-the-scenes executive, so they asked for Actress Cristal's cooperation in order...
...Allied Artists' warlike Hell to Eternity, Actress Patricia Owens does a bump-and-grind sequence in bra and panties for alien observation, is seen only from the neck up in the U.S., or. in long shots, wearing a bra and half-slip. Soon after that, for export only. Actor Jeff Hunter reaches skillfully behind her back, at which moment the U.S. version fades out, but in full detail the subsequent unhooking ceremony is seen and heard around the world...
...clutch of old-line Hong Kong trading firms, which buy it legally on the London gold market at a pegged price, then pass it along to Lobo's syndicate for a "service charge." Gold dealers in Hong Kong say that it is the Portuguese who let the gold slip into illegal channels. The Portuguese, in turn, blandly declare that the bulk of the gold brought into Macao is immediately smuggled back to Hong Kong in junks or on ferries...
...gives the death of a cheap hoodlum dignity and poignance that might easily have seemed unwarranted, but do not. At the beginning of the story his diction and sentence structure set a tone with which occasional word choices clash, but after the first two paragraphs his control does not slip. I look forward to reading the novel, which will counterpoint stories of the gangs with others about a group of New York children who go to college and Europe, have money and women...
...almost never does, on screen or off. Inside a head that makes him look like a benevolent old bullfrog resides a restless imagination, a "flypaper memory" and a wit that ranges from the merry to the mordant. Wilder, not Benchley, was the man who first said: "Wait till I slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." He is also the author of this scathing epigram: "I would worship the ground you walk on if you lived in a better neighborhood...