Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is so naively contrived that the audience at times must swallow it out of simple generosity. Mifune-appearing 15 years trimmer and every muscular inch a star-plays an idealistic rookie detective whose confidence is shaken when a pickpocket steals his .38 Colt on a crowded bus. He plunges into the Tokyo underworld to find it; and in a long sequence without a word of dialogue interrupting the flow of images, Kurosawa pulls the viewer right in after him. Mifune joins forces with a wise old sleuth (Takashi Shimura), and the two men track a killer through a series...
Wilkins' calm and calculating manner is some-what unnerving. But this man, who has devoted forty years to getting things done, keeps his passions well below the surface. His pride is deep enough so that he does not have to swallow it when he must compromise. He is a steady and persistent man, with a shrewd understanding of people. Wilkins knows the facts of political life; if his placid exterior disturbs those who believe his cause demands anger, it is indispensable when, says, a conservative legislator must be cajoled into supporting a civil rights bill. Wilkins inspires respect and profound...
...bloody coup; the armies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda mutinied; poison arrows began flying in the Congo. And although he claimed no responsibility for the flare-ups ("We Chinese are often surprised by compliments we do not deserve," he quipped dryly in Somalia), many Africans found it hard to swallow such a spate of coincidences. Whether he was guilty or not, they were glad to see Chou out of Africa...
...free of Stalinism. They are also the first generation to grow up with famine, poverty, and war. Impatient at the restrictions that remain to hamper life, they are nevertheless glad to be Soviet citizens in an age of promise. They can drain a glass of vodka with a single swallow. They read every new Russian novel from cover to cover, and they know (in translation) Hemingway and Salinger better than...
...customers may not; they are forced to swallow an awful lot of chokers. He: "Will you marry me?" She: "Why settle for one dish when there's smorgasbord?" But now and then there are some funny lines. There is plenty of fast action, too. And there is Elke Sommer, a blizzard blonde who is just possibly the most important German export since the frankfurter. In Hollywood they call her Elke Seltzer, and she may put a fresh fizz in the neighborhood...