Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea to see how they've rearranged the mud," he told the soldiers, sounding like the veteran he is. "If you wonder why I keep coming back to Korea, I have the same travel agent you have." Then, trying one based on his vague resemblance to the Secretary of Defense, he added: "Everywhere we go we get a big reception. Thousands are waiting to cheer. They think I'm Secretary McNamara with shutdown orders...
...more often swallowed by it, and Simple Man is no exception. Actress Cilento, strikingly miscast, has the style and quality for a more respectable trade. Worse still, added scenes and nonessential characters only give the viewers time to think dark thoughts, and in the duller stretches, some may wonder whether the to-bed-or-not-to-bed urgency that besets a working-class lout is really much different from the decision that Doris Day has faced so often and so bravely...
...Everybody roared, and the country boy declared: "By God, all I was going to say was that I'm ready to sign up." Said Johnson afterward: "That broke the deadlock. Of course, I'll never know what he was going to say when I broke in. I wonder...
Duped at last into marrying his tart, the pastryman naturally seeks an annulment, charging fraud. But Filomena has other aces up her sleeve: three stripling sons, whose identities she has concealed for years. "One of them is yours," she purrs, and goes away letting him wonder which. He wonders himself into a state of unconditional surrender...
...hell, the horror, the wonder, the sheer animal delight of it have drawn thousands of readers to a novel called Zorba the Greek, a mad magnificat to man composed by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. This translation of the book into an English-language film might easily have changed the author's hearty wine of life into cinematic sugar water. Instead, Director Michael Cacoyannis (Electra) has served it up in a grand uproarious Bacchanalian bash...