Word: veronicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What ever happened to Veronica Lake? Well, the tresses are a bit shorter, a little less blonde, and during rehearsals they're pulled back in a pony tail...
...Manhattan's Village Gate cabaret, Navarro announces (in Spanish and infant English) that the great liner is setting sail from New York-"ba-hoooooo." Then Spain and 10,000 oles as the matador enters the corrida. A veronica ("shwuss") and the bull flies past ("bohr-uhm, bohr-uhm"). Another 10,000 oles. With only a word here and there, Navarro moves on to England for the Queen's birthday and produces an affair of state: troops marching, planes swooping close by them (the sound of both at once), rifle fire, drums, bagpipes, bugles, hoofbeats, helicopters...
...refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks her job is honest modeling; Bert, a cheerful, muscled vacuum; Veronica, a faintly mad Soho drifter; and Bateman, a policeman. Louise, Bert and Veronica pose for the pornographic pictures, and Bateman, assigned by headquarters to investigate the bookstore, shifts allegiance and becomes the cameraman. Each is held to the bookseller by his hurts, but each, unexpectedly, is strengthened more than corrupted...
...antipasto and steak, and followed him, wringing their hands, as he walked past the pictures. Schubert, who believes that it is necessary to "police modernists," disapproved of Guignard's skyscraper cross, spear-bearing soldiers ("creatures from Mars") and the bloodied imprint of Christ's visage on Veronica's cloth ("a beheaded mule"). Then he delivered his decision: "I will tell the cardinal that these paintings can be consecrated...
...acting of Tatyana Samoilova, who plays Veronica, is as subtle and effective as her face is beautiful. It is her existence which is demolished by the war; she loses her parents, and needing love desperately, is unfaithful to Boris. The story centers on her struggle to find something worth living for amidst the ruins...