Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only ones with a past. Their identities were self-perpetuating. The comedians were comic (Marty Ingels wore paper watches in Switzerland because the real things were too expensive) and insecure. (To which of them would Charlie Chaplin grant an audience?) The drunkards stayed drunk, the kind old ladies went to bed early, and the young love interest people pursued love--though not necessarily with the one prescribed by the script. Murray Hamilton (remember The Graduate) gave us sheer good times, singing to us late at night...
Production people with each new film had discarded their old tunes. Memory went back only as far as the beginning of this film. Maybe that's why there was so little talk when they were together. Just shoulders shrugged in common, and sympathetic rubbings of exhaustion. Towards the end of the film, however, this tacit solidarity had grown so strong that members of the local production crews--if they boldly sought to disrupt the way of life of the permanent crew--just saliently, swiftly, disappeared...
Venice rotted and went stormy with the end of summer. The last days were bittersweet like the cigarette of a man about to die. Champagne at dawn and sleep through the day. The most proper Englishman of all, burdened by a suspicion of having danced nude at breakfast, did not show himself again. Not many of us said good-bye. There was too much "see you around" in that...
...this time he was already in his seventies, and although he won re-election in 1962, his age was a growing liability in a nation that values youth for its own sake. During Gruening's losing campaigns of 1968, he went to the extreme of taking a swim in the freezing Arctic waters to demonstrate his physical vigor. His age nevertheless appears to have brought on his narrow defeat in the Democratic primary last year...
...battle for first went down to the final weekend of Ivy play. Princeton edged Columbia, 60-59, to wrap up the crown, and then the Lions upended Penn, 69-59, to earn the second spot...