Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This amused look at eroticism is the business of the story collection Laughable Loves. The book is light, wry and wise. Over and over again, Kundera sets up the classic situation of sexual farce: A realizes intuitively that B is interested, and therefore swells with vanity and lust; in reality, however, B's interest is in C, whose tender signals are meant...
...takes on the new role of villain in this movie. The film was scripted by Franco Salinas, who also wrote the screen play for The Battle of Algiers. The film will be shown at the Science Center tonight and tomorrow at 7 and 9. Danny Schechter, BCN's politically-wise news dissector, will be on hand to talk about the reality of U.S. involvement in anti-revolutionary struggles in Latin America...
...dominant figure in Rome's exclusive American circle. She is a kind of bridge between high society and the real world. Instead of rejecting Daisy outright, as all of her uppity friends do, she tries to save the young girl's precariously balanced reputation. Bogdanovich turns this worldy-wise matron into a more raw, sensual character with hints of an affair just ending between her and Winterbourne. Admittedly, Eileen Brennan's performance as the feline Mrs. Walker is very convincing. However, to pull it off completely, the film has to enlarge another character from the book into Mrs. Walker...
Bumper crops of many farm products could still drive down some retail food prices this year-but in view of the widening spread between farm costs and retail food prices, the consumer would be wise not to count...
...mending. Despite all the patent disapproval, though, the operation still seems feasible, the only alternative to Benson's previous condition. The unresolved conflict lends the film a rather archaic tone, like those old horror movies that ended in the smoldering ashes of some laboratory, where a dim but wise policeman would shake his head and say, "Man wasn't ready for such knowledge...