Word: tarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attorney General John Mitchell's dour podsnappery as Southern strategist and antidissenter cheers the forces of law and order and dismays liberals. Mitchell himself has remained as invisible as before. But his wife Martha has emerged as one of the dominant figures on the Washington scene, and her tart tongue has enlivened a lot of cocktail parties (see box, page...
...closest domestic adviser. Friends report that she invariably keeps the Attorney General waiting while she primps for an evening out, and that he greets her appearance with an unruffled "Hi, gorgeous." The most vocal of all the Cabinet members' wives, Mrs. Mitchell does not hesitate to offer her tart views, as she demonstrated in a recent interview with'TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer...
...Tart Seduction. Connery is the first male, a prideful master carpenter who takes for granted that woman was created solely for his pleasure. He matter-of-factly lies to all his ladies, including his daughter (Calder-Marshall). That deceit permanently estranges them, indurates her heart against all men and sets up Segment No. 2: her confrontation with Caine. Michael plays a reptilian charmer, the acknowledged sultan of the typing pool. Or he was until challenged by Calder-Marshall, who decides to wreak vengeance on the whole gender of womanizers by giving Caine "one in the eye for every girl...
...badinage of the seduction scenes and the script as a whole will sound uncommonly witty, tart and adult to American audiences, particularly now that the networks are under attack for "excessive permissiveness" from John Pastore, chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. No canned laughter is added to the sound track. There is one deferential addition for the American viewers, though: a brief epilogue and tidy ending, showing the Caine and Calder-Marshall courtship heading for consummation, probably in wedlock. Another hopeful outcome is that Play wright Owen is now drafting a sequel: Female of the Species, starring Elizabeth Taylor...
...starred in the critically acclaimed movie Isabel, is getting a crack at the coveted part. In London for the filming of the latest version of Anne of the Thousand Days, Genevieve won generous praise from her leading man, Richard Burton. "She seems to me like a very pert tart-in the proper sense," he said. "I have no doubt she will steal all the notices." King Richard also indicated that playing Henry VIII might be the capstone of his movie career, which should cheer those who think his talents are wasted in films. "Much of acting is tedium...