Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again taken its toll in fall guys. This time the Kremlin abruptly removed Vladimir Matskevich, 63, as Minister of Agriculture. A two-time loser, Matskevich had been fired from the same job in 1960 for "mismanagement," then shunted off to be chairman of Nikita Khrushchev's much criticized "virgin lands" project before being restored to the agriculture ministry five years later. Earlier this month Izvestia reported that Sergei Shevchenko, the ministry official in charge of farm machinery, had also been discharged for "violating state discipline"-Soviet jargon for quarreling with the boss or gross incompetence. Sovietologists predicted other...
...later years are X-rated Laurel and Hardy. They booze, dream of becoming professional jazz musicians, chase and frequently catch girls. There are Leo days, Teddy days, and occasionally Leo-and-Teddy days, never thought it would be like this; I mean, siamese twins, holy Christmas," says one young virgin...
Travels With My Aunt is the story of Henry (Alec McGowen), a forty-year-old virgin and the most bankclerky of Englishmen, and his seventy-year-old Aunt Augusta (Maggie Smith), as promiscuous and unconventional as Henry is straightlaced. She sweeps him out of his dreary English garden away on a precarious flirtation with the underworld...
...nothing, suffered nothing, lost loved, given nothing, dreamed nothing. Travelling, both to Istanbul and into Aunt Augusta's past, is Henry's initiation into life. As this provincial survives one mindblower after another, stiff primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta tells him that his legal mother was in fact a virgin, Wordsworth substitutes that woman's ashes with cannabis, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum coated nipples in the spotlights. Aunt Augusta is Henry's wicked fairy--in the beginning a brazen hussy, in the end a worn out bronze...
...first film-a ten-minute short-when he was 15, his first feature when he was 20. By that time, he had also published a prizewinning book of poetry, In Search of Mystery, and worked as an assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini on Accattone! "He was just as virgin to the cinema as I was," Bertolucci recalls. "So I didn't watch a director at work. I watched a director being born...