Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungarians love chocolate - indeed, it is their favorite sweet. They eat it in pastries, cakes, cookies, and even as the stuffing of a pancake called palacsinta. But last week Budapest was abuzz with rumors of a scandal that turned many a Communist sweet tooth sour. At lavish parties run for high government officials by the boss of Hungary's state-controlled national catering service, the pièce de résistance was a chocolate-covered airline hostess...
...changed. The hero of Nine Days is a nuclear scientist who is hopelessly hung up on a great big, beautiful neutron breeder. The Stakhanovites sweated for the sake of the socialist society. But the scientist in this picture labors, and even accepts a fatal dose of radiation, for the sweet sake of science-because, as he proclaims, "You cannot stop an idea!" Just like Greer Garson in Madame Curie...
...Lilienthal was often tempted to quit. But he had second thoughts, as he noted candidly. "Though I don't think I am pathologically vain, there is a thrill in being a celebrity and in the kudos that go with that state. Playing the great man-it is a sweet draught and no mistake...
...huge, Erie begins his hour-long self-sell monologue. The spiel sounds like a matter of life and death, because it is. The air is never airy in O'Neill. It is obdurate and oppressive, and his characters slash at it and through it with fast talk, sweet talk, crying talk, any kind of talk. It is a poet's speech-not that O'Neill could ever write a poetic line, but in the sense that a poet regards prose as an inadequate tool to express a man's longings. The poignant intensity...
...great faith in Sam ("it comes from Bombay, the farfetched East"). Under Hackett's lunatic gaze, Sam's face turns red, as well it might, since in Act I the crystal ball mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa). In Act II, Hackett second-guesses Sam; the baddies and the goodies mate...