Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Madame Rosa's death is what half the plot of Madame Rosa, this year's Oscar winner as Best Foreign Film, is about. The other half is about a boy, Momo's, maturation. But there is more to the movie than just the relationship between a dying woman and the growing boy she raises, just as there is more to their relationship than just a difference...
...accept the premise that a handsome man in his early thirties would be panting to go to bed with an 84-year-old woman, the movie proceeds logically enough. Before the happy pair can crawl between the satin sheets, they encounter (in no particular order) Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Dom DeLuise, George Raft, Alice Cooper, Walter Pidgeon, Mr. Universe, Mr. U.S.A., Mr. America, Mr. California, Mr. Pennsylvania, and a man (Ed Beheler) who looks so much like Jimmy Carter that even Miss Lillian might set him down for a bowl of grits...
Samuel Beckett performed some brave work with the French Resistance during World War II: He married a woman seven years his senior in 1961 after having lived with her for amost a quarter-century...
...greyhounds are now leaving the starting gate..." bellowed the announcer. The shuffling of programs ceased. A woman next to me brandished her binoculars...
MacCaffrey came to Harvard from Tufts in 1971, and one year later became the first woman ever to be chairman of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature...