Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stranger's Guide to the City of Washington advises: "You will neither chew tobacco in the lady's drawing room nor swallow the warm water contained in the finger bowls." Well that doesn't hardly happen any more. Still, the Woman's National Democratic Club decided that it was time for a new primer for capital hostesses and published Party Diary: Planning Ahead and the "Fete" Accompli, a 100-page guidebook anthologizing social notes and comments from the city's experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary...
Then, what seemed to be a quiet genre painting is suddenly ripped by violence. A stranger appears, announcing with grinning malevolence that the handyman has escaped from an insane asylum and must return. When the stranger pulls a knife, Thompson kills him. The rest of the play shows Thompson, acquitted by a jury, bleakly, desperately dragging his sickly wife (Olivia de Havilland) from one neighbor's house to another to defend himself and his deed. Then he blows his brains...
...When it was done," moaned Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22, "I felt weird. Naked. I felt I'd forgotten to put on my trousers or my sweater or something." It seems that for her part in a murder movie called Stranger in the House, Charlie's daughter had to have her 30-in. tresses snipped off, wound up looking more like her father than ever. "Well," she said on the set in London, "it was nice to be feminine once." She still looked distinctly like a girl, however, when she climbed a fence between scenes and displayed some...
Though hardly a stranger to domestic crisis, Katzenbach, 44, had had no direct experience with foreign policy be fore his appointment in September...
...stranger now unto me, lost in the dangling conversation, And the superficial sighs, in the borders of our lives...