Word: vixen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sartre has further chosen to emphasize the revengeful desires of Abigail Williams, a seventeen-year-old vixen who, after being seduced by Proctor, plots to have his wife hanged as a witch in order to take her place as mistress of the Proctor farm. Naturally then, there are some typically Gallic seduction scenes that are only implied in the play. The blatant lust of Abigail, brilliantly and demonically played by Mylene Demongeot, completely erases the more insidious evil of the original character...
VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. terrible-tempered, anticlerical novelist, was looking for a female lead for the movie of his novel. Blood and Sand, when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You anti-Christ!" Ibanez shrilled back so excitedly that his -'upper plate fell out of his mouth into Nixie's bosom." Whereupon the hostess, "who had hoped for a stimulating evening, but not this stimulating, quickly reached down into Nixie, pulled out the teeth, rinsed them in the punch...
...suddenly appears on the scene. Anouilh's General St. Pe, a Don Quixote when he is not a Don Juan, needs-as he grows older-stronger and stronger rose-colored glasses, and is all the more romantic for the day-to-day realities of a vixen wife and two ugly daughters. In the end his foundling secretary-who turns out to be his son-has carried off his dream woman, and the general is left lonely in the dusk. But he soon enough finds a pretty new housemaid to steal out with into the darkness...
...mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
...took six months to put together Perkins' first engine, a four-cylinder monster named "Vixen." Since Vixen had no self-starter, for the first test mechanics unbolted the combustion-chamber caps, ran to a nearby furnace, waited for the caps to get almost red-hot, then ran back to bolt them into place. Heat from the caps ignited the fuel in the chamber; after the engine fired and ran, the entire shop staff retired to a pub to celebrate...