Word: vat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese wine maker she met in Hong Kong even sent two magnums of Dragon, Tiger & Phoenix, vintage '58, whose rare bouquet is obtained by steeping 200 snakes, five civets and ten storks in a vat of rice wine. Administered daily, explained its maker, D.T. & P. will keep Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvy in good health, make their marriage happy and, for good measure, preserve them from rheumatism. Poet Laureate John Masefield put it more elegantly, without wine...
...recorded on a film strip of memorable moments from forgettable musicals. She torch-sings an affecting lament for lost first love (I Know the Feeling) in a bistro baritone that huskily recalls early Marlene Dietrich. In party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch the shoddy show goods with which Broadway's indomitable pitchmen hope to mulct the theatergoing muzhiks...
...over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City. But Washington was on to the game, warned Kennedy. The U.S. even knew the secret Soviet code name for the operation: "Vat...
...sees in a pretty nurse (Claudia Cardinale) the symbol of purity and later recalls his childhood in a Catholic school, where he was seduced by a middle-aged crone. Mastroianni in Oedipal embrace with his mother is followed by Mastroianni in a harem being lovingly bathed in a vat by all the women in his life. Finally, Mastroianni has a vision that the film he wants to do is about the people he knows, not his fantasies. He dances in a happy ring with his actors and actresses...
...freedom. He kept an anemic grocery store on the Sea of Azov, enrolled his son in a tailoring school as an economic practicality, once shouted at him. "You can't run about so much because you'll wear out your shoes." When a rat drowned in a vat of mineral oil in his store, Father Chekhov removed it, had the priests purify the vat with prayer, went on selling...