Word: swinishness
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...Swinish Idea...
...Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters to Europe, where he worked unenthusiastically as a villain in Italian potboilers. "One day," he says yearningly, "they will realize...
...steady reader grows affectionately aware of Van der Valk's changing circumstances. His two sons grow up. He slowly mounts the bureaucratic ladder from simple detective to special commissaris. His wife, Arlette, keeps feuding over sweetbreads with her swinish butcher. In King of the Rainy Country, Van der Valk is shot and nearly killed by a hysterical woman. He is seduced just once, in Ireland, but is miserable until he confesses it to Arlette...
...bumptious farmer have their respective sets of twin boys mixed up by. a harried doctor. One unmatched pair (Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland) become the murderous, exquisitely aberrant "Corsican Brothers," existing on the perfumed fringes of the aristocracy. The other two (also Wilder and Sutherland) grow up to be swinish revolutionary hangers...
...characters sound intriguing. There is a rich, young widow, Marie Forbes, who yearns to do good by performing positive actions; she starts on her career "quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...