Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect to share communal marital privileges. When the terrified bride decamps on her wedding night and rejoins the gold-guarding trio, the serious shooting begins. The good-guy bad-guy struggle is dramatically tangled and intensified by the fact that Scott and Starr have intended all along to either sweet-talk or pistol-silence McCrea out of the gold...
...victory is all the sweeter when the battle has been hard fought, then the New Frontier was set to savor a very sweet victory when its farm bill came to a House vote. The Administration had battled long and hard for the measure. It survived in the Senate last month by the nervous margin of 42 to 38. It got past the House Agriculture Committee by a single vote-18 to 17. Only a fortnight ago, its prospects of passing the House looked so dubious that the Democratic leadership decided to postpone the scheduled showdown so as to give...
...Sweet Bird of Youth. A bottom-drawer Tennessee Williams play has been made into good Hollywood fare, with a nice scenic feel for the Gulf Coast and rock-solid performances by Geraldine Page as a has-been star and Paul Newman as her kept male...
Such is the simple plot of this new novel by V. S. Naipaul, 29, a Hindu who made a name for himself in his first novel, The Mystic Masseur, which recorded with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy...
...Sweet Bird of Youth. A bottom-drawer Tennessee Williams play has been made into good Hollywood fare with a nice scenic feel for the Gulf Coast, and rock-solid performances by Geraldine Page as a has-been star and Paul Newman as her kept male...