Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, in other developments, gramophone authorities revealed that a new rock 'n' roll record will be released in the Square next week featuring the torrid singing voice of veteran actress Bette Davis...
...will or not, the U.S. has just been saddled with a second Tropic of literary conversation. Tropic A, published in the U.S. for the first time last year, was Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's long-banned wallow in Parisian vice. Tropic B is Tropic of Capricorn, its torrid twin. In the past, when both books had to be smuggled into the U.S., hosts of nonreaders thought of them only as interchangeable smut. Now anyone with a strongish stomach can find out for himself: smut they may be, but interchangeable they...
Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot choclate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...
Drummey, the little third sacker with a tremendous cross diamond throw, is currently leading the Crimson in batting with a torrid .379 average. He is closely trailed by Terry Bartolet, who owns a .361 mark. Other Crimson batsmen hitting over .300 include Morse (.317), pitchers Yarbro (.429) and Paul Del Rossi...
Brandished Threats. Newsmen in the new State Department Auditorium sensed immediately that they were in for a torrid session. Glancing neither to left nor right, Kennedy marched to the stage, grimly be gan reading a statement that had been drafted by Goldberg, rewritten by Aide Ted Sorensen and changed in the last minutes by Kennedy himself. "In this serious hour in our nation's history." said Kennedy, "when we are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability, when we are asking reservists to leave their homes...