Word: supper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Supper. Most Disneyland imitators have discovered that a park cannot thrive on a theme alone. "Theme parks have a hard time, unless they add new attractions," says one authority. "People don't come back, and what makes a park click is repeat business...
...least, when Elizabeth's odyssey sounds like a radio serial that has lost its snap and crackle. But in the telling, it frequently pops with O'Hara's unequaled expertise as a domestic historian. Tuning in on a bridge game or a couple chatting over the supper dishes, watching a college president pushing responsibility for a nasty school scandal off onto the shoulders of a young dean, he catches dialogue which seems not so much an artistic invention as an overheard invasion of privacy. An early scene in Southampton, when Elizabeth's mother politely grills...
...Right, Jack gave Sellers his alltime juiciest part. It is a collage of comic bits pasted together with satire: Sellers walking into an open grave in a rainstorm, Sellers munching dog biscuits along with his sherry, a train compartment full of clerics looking startled when "the last supper" is announced in the dining car ahead...
Kirkland: Cocktails in common room, in the afternoon. Buffet supper. Two dances, with big-name fast and slow bands...
...doomed to hellfire. When retreating German soldiers put up at the villa, the girls are upset that Uncle does not show more hospitality to their visitors. The soldiers cater to the whims of the little girls. There is a touching scene when the German general, invited to a supper in the woods, obediently sips soup in the company of assorted dolls and Penny's yellow bear...