Word: spinsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAPE COD MELODY TENT, Hyannis, Mass. Dorothy Collins stars in Do I Hear a Waltz? as the spinster who finds love on the lagoons of Venice...
Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
...Y.M.C.A. Method. Chandrasekhar agrees with critics that India's birth control efforts have been snarled by red tape and hurt by wishful thinking, such as his spinster predecessor's plea for brahmacharya (monklike abstinence). Nor does he place his hopes on any single method to defuse India's population time bomb. While other experts have alternatively argued for the intrauterine loop, sterilization or the pill, Chandrasekhar recognizes that none alone can provide the answer; popular fears of the loop and surgery bear him out. Instead, he vigorously favors a "cafeteria approach," giving Indians the widest choice...
...movie's faults are those of excess--a little too much freshness, fastness, and cleverness at times. Tricky gimmicks are repeated too often or dwelled on too long the first time around. Possessive Momma sends her son locks of her hair; a hypocritically-pious spinster drags a burly cop off to bed; the bitch-goddess type has tacked above her bed the wooden leg of her first seducer--an albino hypnotherapist. It can be too much, even if you are prepared to accept most anything...
...cast is pretty high-powered too. Momma is Geraldine Page (you might check today's page one to see if she has won an Academy Award), lecherous poppa is Rip Torn; lecherous spinster is Julie Harris; Wise-guy friend is Tony Bill; big boy himself is Peter Kastner. But strangest of all is Elizabeth Hartman--the blind girl you all knew and loved in A Patch of Blue--as the disco dancer. She shakes, she shimmies. she is the most unremittingly evil person you'll meet all week...