Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...till in Victim No. 4 (Rosanna Schiaffino), phony Tony meets a mankiller who shows him how two can die as cheaply as one. By that time, unfortunately, the joke has gone on too long, and the spectator is left with a somewhat unnerving realization: at 41, Curtis seems most at home in his scenes as Little Lord Fauntleroy...
...evokes the American past with her infallable precision, lending high rhetoric the aspect of everyday speech in such phrases as "the prairie wolves/ in lunar hilarity," moulding images sharp as her beloved snapshots in passages like: "How people used to meet!/ starved, intense, the old/ Christmas gifts saved up till spring,/ and the old plain words...
...Verushka, whom he woos with his camera until they both collapse in erotic exhaustion. On a side trip to Woolwich, he happens to notice a pretty little park where a handsome couple is amorously straying. Nothing better to do, so he follows them, shooting on the sly, till the girl (Vanessa Redgrave) catches him at it and indignantly demands the roll of film. When he refuses, she offers him a roll in camera for the roll in the camera. Wondering why she wants the picture, he contrives by trickery to take the girl and keep the film...
Though he fled Ireland-that "sow that eats its own litter"-Joyce was never far from home in thought. His loving hatred for it burned fiercely till he died. He was, as Ellmann puts it neatly and memorably, "a Parnell...
Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes." Last week, as the party gathered in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier for its regular convention, Tory dissidents were trying their best to close...