Word: sommerance
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...woman with the animal splendors of the young Ava Gardner, Hollywood has completely lost its come-hither look, falling behind the competition from Europe, where Sophia Loren still unquestionably rules the pantheon. Around her, Bardot and Lollobrigida are fading. But Romy Schneider, Simone Signoret, Claudia Cardinale and Elke Sommer can each outsex all that the American industry has to offer. Hollywood is so barren of sex, in fact, that only last week Universal Pictures had to hold a beauty contest in New York's Americana Hotel in order to find three girls to add wattage to a promotion...
...famine in the land. So much time has passed since Hollywood last turned up a really luscious girl that even casting directors are reading Playboy. For the last several years, Hollywood has had to import its glamour, and its latest is a westbound CARE package from Germany named Elke Sommer...
...Mistress Quickly (now Pistol's wife), Betty Bendyk is too genteel and her accent is faulty. She does better doubling later as the French queen. Of the other French, Patrick Hines is authentically wild and insane as King Charles, but Douglas Watson's Dauphin is confusingly drawn. Josef Sommer's Montjoy is unusually well-spoken. Princess Katharine (Patricia Peardon) and her attendant Alice (Anne Draper) are delightful in their famous lesson and wooing scenes...
...course of action meets with Mr. Sokolov's approval, might I respectfully suggest as well that villanelles were written long before that of Jean Passerat in 1006, from which the present form is derived, and that the art of poetry is a trifle more capacious than his rules? Richard Sommer Teaching Fellow in English
...others, they hardly merit close attention. Richard Sommer, a tutor in English, might be excused for his erratic rhyme schemes and his stammering metrics, if he had not labelled The Soldier a villanelle. There is, I submit, no point in pretending to a strict form if one violates it as flagrantly as Sommer does. If Sommer wants a proper category for this contorted piece, he might choose "virelay," defined as "a song or poem esp. with an intricate or monotonous rhyme scheme...