Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fielding calls his staff his "family." It consists of Temple, his wife Nancy ("My Nancy"), Joe Raff (ex-managing editor of the Rome Daily American), Raff's wife Judy and Robert Bone, formerly of TIME Inc.'s Book Division. Each Fielding family member has a nickname, which
...Improvement. In general, nursing homes have long had a chamber-of-horrors reputation, especially many of the older, smaller "mom and pop" homes run by unskilled husband-and-wife teams. Roy Christensen, 35, president of Beverly Enterprises, charges that they often are "just cesspools for the dying aged." By all outward signs, the newer chain homes are a vast improvement. Most are airy, well-lighted, landscaped structures that look like motels. Some have such amenities as barbershops and beauty parlors. Mindful that idleness can break the will to live, many organize activities for patients, including on-premises religious services, movies...
Sense Robbery. A placid, pawky art dealer, Sir Edward More (Nicol Williamson) is abruptly seized with an uncontrollable passion. Its object is Margot (Anna Karina), usherette in a London cinema. Gutted by desire, Sir Edward cannot be home with his wife and child for more than a minute before lunging for the doorway and heading back to the moviehouse. There he gropes through a guffawing audience for yet another glimpse of the girl. At last an assignation is arranged, an agreement extracted. In scenes of purest Feydeau farce, Sir Edward pursues Margot in and out of hallways and bedrooms split...
...morning Sir Edward's wife intercepts a telegram from his mistress. From that instant, the farce ascends into a blackened comedy of Eros. The More family is dissolved; Sir Edward and his new lady become a ménage à trois when they are joined by her lover, Hervé (Jean-Claude Drouot), who is posing as a homosexual. Together the two take More for all he has-including his senses. When an automobile accident robs Sir Edward of his sight, he becomes pathetically dependent on Margot. Trapped in a Mediterranean villa, he is blindly unaware that the deception...
...have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...