Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT are more kitten (Diana Sands) and mouse (Alan Alda) in Bill Manhoff's amusing yarn about the eternal circular pursuit of male and female...
...PUSSYCAT are more kitten (Diana Sands) and mouse (Alan Alda) in Bill Manhoffs amusing yarn about the eternal circular pursuit of male and female...
Though The Ipcress File is certainly not another Third Man, director Sidney Furie has turned out an entertaining yarn, a spy film that's more than just a series of hair raising events punctuated by bullets and judo chops. Michael Caine seems perfect as third man, childishly impudent yet amazingly tough, and Sue Lloyd makes an attractive girl Friday. While you're waiting for Thunderball, you can't do much better in the way of vicarious adventure...
...related by Thomas E. Marston, Yale University Library's curator of medieval and Renaissance literature, in the gruffly deprecatory language of scholarship, the discovery of the map is quite a dramatic yarn in itself. It began in October 1957, when a New Haven antiquarian bookseller, Laurence Witten, dropped by the Yale Library to show Marston and Map Curator Alexander O. Victor a slim volume that Witten had acquired from a private collection in Europe. The book included the map and 21 pages of text, which were a transcription of an account of the expedition led by Friar John...
...IPCRESS FILE. Freed from Bondage to gags and gimmickry, this British suspense yarn plays up the honest good humor in the exploits of a secret agent (Michael Caine) who saves England's top scientists from a massive brainwash...