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Word: soppiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corals. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he quips afterward, wading ashore. Alas, even subaqueous sex cannot keep the formula entirely fresh. Yet, if Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. He is hilariously astringent when he drops a limp dancing partner at a nightclubber's ringside table, saying: "D'you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead." And indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Subaqueous Spy | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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