Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is so sweet it hurts, but it does have Mary Martin...
...Institut de Puériculture, a hospital for premature infants, she accepted a bouquet of sweet peas, admired the babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace...
...Fayette answered: "What grudge could I have, my dearest? You have always been so sweet, so good...
...population of 14,000 on the islands was so near starvation that some were surviving by eating seaweed and small crabs. Infant mortality was 40%. Not long after he arrived, Moffett saw islanders bury in the beach 53 children who had died of diphtheria. Rice, barley, cabbage and sweet potatoes could be grown only four months a year. For the remaining eight months, the islands depended on the catch brought back by 23 fishing boats...
...exits are either barricaded or booby-trapped. A rumor of gas causes mass hysteria. A simple cough is like a thunderbolt that brings on a rain of German grenades. A classical pianist plays a melancholy tune on his sweet-potato pipe and quotes Dante's Inferno as his mind ebbs away "in the lake's foul bottom, plunged in dung"-a grim elegy that unites all their fates. A sentient lover (Tadeusz Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely...