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Word: spinsterism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visita. Pina (Sandra Milo) is a small-town spinster with hair like yesterday's escarole and a bottom the size of a hope chest. Adolfo (Francois Perier) is a big-city bachelor with a discouraged mustache and legs like fuzzy yellow pencils. They meet after he answers her ad in a lonely-hearts column, and in this sad, hilarious, faultless little film by Italy's Antonio Pietrangeli, they begin and end in a single day the least hopeful attempt at pairing since the dish ran away with the spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bind That Ties | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

Mademoiselle is an exquisitely photographed flop in which three flamboyant talents compound each other's mistakes. Trying an English-language drama overladen with artsy Continental flavor, Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) miscasts Jeanne Moreau, an actress far too frost-free to catch the temper of a frustrated spinster. She brings every subconscious drive boiling to the surface, and her roaring heterosexual readiness makes a parody of the screenplay by France's poet of perversion, Jean Genet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Psychodrama | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Taking up the scepter in 1644, Christina soon became Europe's most curious baroque spinster queen. Her father, the militant Protestant Gustavus Adolphus, had ordered that she be brought up as a boy. In fact, the royal midwives had at first thought that she was one. She practiced shooting with a pistol, learned to speak Latin, French, German, Dutch, Italian and cope in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions,: Bachelor Queen | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...Elisa, Napoleon's eldest sister, was a shrewd, bald bluestocking with "the soul of a libertine in the body of a spinster" and only two claims to fame: 1) she made a fortune selling marble busts of her brother, and 2) to preserve her properties, she turned traitor and delivered Florence to the allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Corsican Mafia | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). For Two Lovers, MGM built New Zealand in Culver City, cast Shirley MacLaine as a spinster schoolmarm who has this frigidity problem with men - like Laurence Harvey and Jack Hawkins. The result is somewhat Metro-Goldwyn-Maori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

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