Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest manifestations of the above axiom are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mike Nichols. And while the product should be seen as long as it exists, one can't avoid wishing that both director and property had never gone to Hollywood...
BORN FREE. Living among lions and looking as though they love it, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers add zest to a dandy movie based on Joy Adamson's bestseller about her rambunctious house pet, Elsa...
Howard Worth Smith of Virginia has followed with unsurpassed fidelity the formula of Southern political success that starts an ambitious young man in the statehouse or courthouse, then sends him up to Congress to husband seniority and power. After eight years on the bench he was elected to the House in 1930; he is still there today, still known universally as Judge Smith...
Judge Smith's opponent is Fredericksburg Attorney George C. Rawlings Jr., 44, a member of the legislature and a liberal by Virginia standards. Rawlings, who supports the Johnson Administration on most issues, has been racing tirelessly around the district since April. Rawlings attacks Smith as "Public Enemy No. 1 of the working man," a Representative "who has opposed more progressive legislation than any other Democrat or Republican in the entire history of Congress...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may well be rewarded at the box office primarily for not having the dirty words washed out of its mouth. With a reluctant blessing from censors, all the blunt four, five-and six-letter profanities that helped make Edward Albee's Broadway play a sizzling hit have been brought to the screen intact. But nasty language can be had for free on any street corner. A moviegoer who lays out his money to see Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a blue comedy will get a shock of another color. Virginia Woolf at its best...