Word: vert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which might have made a vert nice fifteen or twenty minute flick, but an hour and a half is ridiculous. Other things that are bad about the movie are the music (which comes in with the subtlety of a napalm raid), the dialogue (such conversations as "Winter is so long." "And summer is so short." "That is because in the summer we are so busy preparing for the winter."), and the acting, which, by any standards, is quite poor...
...youth cold-shaved his chin in a Concord street to "Get Clean for Gene," while another hirsute can vasser, barred entry because of his beard by an irate housewife, borrowed a razor and tried to con vert her while depilating. Though a sign in one McCarthy headquarters proclaimed that "Strange Politics Makes Bedfellows," housing was strictly segregated by sexes (boys in a gymnasium, girls in McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough...
...lovers are saluting an artistic modernization of what medieval men rallied around: flags and banners by living artists. Galleries and museums in Manhattan are brightening the city's glass-and-steel canyons with new glories in flapping fabric. The lions rampant gules and cinquefoils vert have been replaced by opping concatenations and popping faces, as modern heraldry makes art go public in an exciting manner (see color...
Bond also seems to have the full range of modern technological fun and games at his fingertips-from automobiles (which fascinate him) to aqualungs. He talks knowledgeably about perfume (though he admits the gaffe of once attributing Vent Vert to Dior instead of Balmain). He is a whiz at games; his adventures include several elaborately described games at which Bond wins five-figure stakes from the villain-usually by out-cheating...
...government and the party during the meeting of the chiefs of staff of the Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...