Word: troy
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...another. Romantic German poets sang the love of their women to the point of distraction, but their heroines usually sounded remote and untouchable. Faust's demure Gretchen was touchable, all right-but he left her to go cavorting in the Devil's company with Helen of Troy...
...novel, which told how U.S. cavalrymen in the 1880s subdued one of the last powerful Apache chiefs, the movie plays down the drama of the great Southwest, plays up three bright young faces from Beverly Hills. All that fuss about redskins seems picayune compared with the plight of Lieut. Troy Donahue. Setting femmes aflutter at Fort Delivery, Ariz., Troy bestrides a flesh-and-blood horse, but his acting is appropriately wooden. He is an animated Ken doll with golden hair, caught between the Barbie and Midge dolls impersonated by Suzanne Pleshette and Diane McBain...
...sequence that has Chief War Eagle speaking Apache lingo while English subtitles flash on the screen. A less significant breakthrough is James Gregory's mock heroic performance as a gruff old Indian fighter who charges into battle spouting quotations from Latin. Since completion of the film, Troy and Suzanne have become Mr. and Mrs. in private life, gamely rallying from disaster for a Hollywood finish of their very own: omnia vincit amor...
Tammy materializes after a misbegotten seance recalls her from the dead to hex her slightly unnerved husband (Edward Woodward) and badly annoyed second wife (Louise Troy). The zany medium, Madame Arcati (Bea) leaves the trio to make the worst of things and the best of fun out of their unearthly...
...Treasury of the United States of America one dollar in silver payable to the bearer on demand? From now on, said Dillon, silver certificates will be redeemed at the U.S. Assay Offices in New York City or San Francisco with envelopes containing exactly 0.77 of a "fine troy" ounce of silver crystals, worth a dollar at the official monetary rate for silver: $1.29 per oz. Collectors will be hard put to trade up their value -they will bear no identifying marks of any kind...